Rat-Hole in Meghalaya: Whose coal is it anyways?
On the issue of rat-hole mining, coal mines which are mainly concentrated in the Jaintia Hills district of the state are termed as small-scale mines which operate beyond the purview of the Coal Mines (Nationaalisation) Act. For some time mow there has been talk to regulate the sector as several miners have lost their lives.
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Group of Miners Trapped Inside 'Rat Hole' Coal Mine for ...
According to the BBC, "rat hole" mining was banned in 2014 but is still widely practiced across the East Jaintia Hills area. ... the Superintendent of Police of the East Jaintia Hill district, ...
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India's Treacherous Coal Mines in Meghalaya - Circle of Blue
"The state has a vested interest in allowing the continuance of rat hole mining," said Patricia Mukhim, the Shillong Times editor, in an email message to Circle of Blue. "Unless there is a centrally appointed oversight committee to oversee the implementation of the ban it will be difficult to see the end of rat hole mining in Jaintia ...
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Dec report admits to illegal mining in Meghalaya ...
A report from Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district administration last month admitted that "fresh" coal-mining activities were on in a "clandestine" manner, while other districts claimed that there was no rat-hole mining ever since the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a ban in 2014.
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Ending Meghalaya's 'Deadly Occupation': India's …
MIPRL is a pro rat-hole mining movement formed just after the National Green Tribunal ban on rat hole mining in Meghalaya; it demands the implementation of Para 12 A Sub Para (b) of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India to protect the Khasi, Jaintia and …
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Despite the tragedy, rat-hole mining in the Jaintia Hills ...
Despite the tragedy, rat-hole mining in the Jaintia Hills is likely to continue. Fifty-one days have passed since 15 miners were trapped inside a …
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RAT HOLE MINING - Optimize IAS
The Jaintia Coal Miners and Dealers' Association claims there are some 60,000 coal mines across 360 villages in East Jaintia Hills district. Moolamylliang used to be one such village until the National Green Tribunal banned rat-hole mining in April 2014.
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Rat-hole mining rampant in Meghalaya despite NGT ban ...
A month ago, rights activist Agnes Kharshiing and her companion were attacked by a group of people who were suspected to be members of coal mining mafia in East Jaintia Hills district. Kharshiing had reportedly captured photographs of illegal rat-hole mining in the district and was stopped by miscreants on their way back.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding rat-hole ...
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding rat-hole coal mining in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, 17/04/2014 17/04/2014 National Green Tribunal Principal Bench, New Delhi has instructed Chief Secretary of the Government of Meghalaya to ensure that illegal rat-hole mining is stopped within the areas of Meghalaya.
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Why illegal coal mining in Meghalaya employ rat-hole ...
The 2018 coal mining accident shook the world, when 19 miners who went inside an illegal rat-hole mine in East Jaintia Hills never came out alive (except an exceptionally lucky one from Assam). That's when the government of Meghalaya knocked on the door of the Supreme Court for a revision of the NGT ban in the state for legalising coal mining.
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15 Men Trapped But Illegal Rat Hole Mining Continues in ...
15 Men Still Trapped But Illegal Rat Hole Mining Continues in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, NGT Panel Finds The committee headed by retired high court judge BP Katakey has emphasised that illegal mining is unchecked mostly in the East Jaintia Hills District where workers are still ensnared.
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Meghalaya coal mines - Global Energy Monitor
The map below shows the location of the "rat-hole" mining area, in the West Jaintia Hills and East Jaintia Hills districts, in Meghalaya state. Deforestation from the mines can clearly be seen. Zooming in closer, one can clearly see the hundreds if not thousands of small mines that are spread across this area.
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The coal mining politics of Meghalaya: Where tribal rights ...
The accident exposed the coal mining racket in the East Jaintia Hills, despite a ban on rat-hole mining enforced by the National Green Tribunal in …
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Rat-hole mining rampant in Meghalaya despite NGT ban …
A month ago, rights activist Agnes Kharshiing and her companion were attacked by a group of people who were suspected to be members of coal mining mafia in East Jaintia Hills district. Kharshiing had reportedly captured photographs of illegal rat-hole mining in the district and was stopped by miscreants on their way back.
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'Need to educate coal miners on impact of rat-hole mining ...
However, people in the state have been engaged in rat-hole coal mining for decades. You cannot change their mindset in one day," the Rajya Sabha member said. He also expressed strong reservations over the use of the word 'coal baron' in reference to people involved in …
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An Introduction to Rat-hole Mining | Environics Trust
On December 2018, the collapse of coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, trapping at least 15 workers who were still missing and are feared dead, has thrown the spotlight on the "rat-hole mining." Although banned, it remains the only procedure of coal mining in Meghalaya.
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Where coal is mined via 'rat-holes' | Explained News,The ...
LAST WEEK, the collapse of a coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, trapping at least 15 workers who were still missing until Wednesday and are feared dead, has thrown the spotlight on a procedure known as "rat-hole mining". Although …
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Rat Hole Mining in Meghalaya – Civilsdaily
Rat Hole Mining It is a primitive and hazardous method of mining for coal, with tunnels that are only 3-4 feet in diameter (hence, rat-hole), leading to pits ranging from 5-100 sq. mt deep. It involves digging of very small tunnels in which workers, more often children, enter and extract coal.
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Shillong: Six miners feared trapped in Meghalaya coal mine ...
Shillong: Six miners from Assam, allegedly involved in illegal rat-hole mining in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, were feared trapped inside a coal mine after it collapsed, according to information received from the neighbouring state. "Information has emanated from SP Silchar that 6 persons from Assam are trapped in a coal mine in EJ Hills. The mine has been identified …
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Five Miners Trapped in Meghalaya Coal Mine
The NGT ban on mining in Meghalaya came after a petition by Assam's All Dimasa Students Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee had complained that due to rat-hole mining in the Jaintia ...
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Rat - hole Mining in Sutnga village in Jaintia Hills ...
People see money and oppurtunity in rat-hole mining and mechanize to extract maximum profits.
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Meghalaya's rat hole traps - The Hindu
The Jaintia Hills, especially West Jaintia Hills district, are rich in limestone too. Says Daly: "The whole valley has become acidic, like a desert. Mining has robbed the poor villagers of their ...
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Moolamylliang Recovers From Rat Hole Mining
Moolamylliang, a village in the East Jaintia Hills region of Meghalaya, is becoming greener and making progress in the abandoned mine pit where the mouse hole was mined. Highlights: ♦ The National Green Tribunal (NGT) banned dangerous rathole coal mining in Meghalaya in April 2014 and set a time limit for the transportation of mined coal.
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Month after Meghalaya mine tragedy, NGT committee asks ...
The police probe should reach a logical conclusion after taking into account all 1200 cases of illegal rat-hole mining in East Garo Hills, South-West Khasi Hills and West and East Jaintia Hills districts. The three-member NGT committee, constituted in August last year, is currently studying the environmental aspects of rat-hole mining in the state.
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Rat-hole mining - Civils360 IAS Academy
Cultural concern: rampant illegal mining destroying natural caves in jaintia hills. Rat-hole mining is illegal: The National Green Tribunal banned rat-hole mining in Meghalaya in 2014 on a petition that said acidic discharge from the mines was polluting the …
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Another year, another mining tragedy — why Meghalaya's ...
Another year, another mining tragedy — why Meghalaya's 'rat holes' won't stop killing. Shillong: A lot of questions remain unanswered about what exactly happened on the morning of 21 January in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, when six miners fell 170 feet to their death at a coal mine in the Sorkari Dienshanlalu village ...
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Illegal coal mining in Meghalaya's killer 'rat holes ...
Illegal coal mining in Meghalaya's killer 'rat holes' continues amid state govt indifference to rampant violations Even 10 days on, around 15 miners are still trapped in a flooded 'rat hole' coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills districts.
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Ban of rat hole mining across Meghalaya, India | EJAtlas
Impulse NGO Network addressed human trafficking and child labour in the rat-hole coal mines of the Jaintia Hills district. INGON filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with the NGT which passed a directive on April 17, 2014, banning rat-hole-mining in the …
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BEFORE THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH, …
rat-hole mining operations in Jaintia Hills of the State of Meghalaya, we are of the view that if in the entire State of Meghalaya such illegal and unscientific operations of rat-hole mining are taking place, the same shall also be put to an end in the interest of people of the area and also people working in the ...
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(DOC) COAL MINING AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT IN JAINTIA HILLS ...
The mining of these minerals goes back to the 19th century. The coalfields of Jaintia hills have been described by Dr. Oldham in his Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Vol.I, Part 2, p.157 and that of La Touche, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XXII, part 3, p.167.
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Meghalaya village turns oasis in coal mine desert – IAS Google
Moolamylliang, a village in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, is making progress in becoming a greener place amid abandoned pits from the rat-hole mining. The Jaintia Coal Miners and Dealers' Association claims there are around 60,000 coal mines across 360 villages in East Jaintia Hills district.; Moolamylliang used to be one such village until the National Green Tribunal (NGT ...
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Meghalaya to resume coal mining despite green concerns ...
Anti-mining activist Agnes Kharshiing said: "Resumption of coal mining will be for political gains. There is no blueprint for feasible coal mining in Meghalaya. It will invariably be rat-hole ...
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coal mining crusher in jaintia hills - UKS Zielonka
Rat Hole Mining Meghalaya East Jaintia Hills UPSC . Jan, coal mining currently underway in meghalaya was a corruption of this constitutional provision wherein private individuals having private interests in earning monetary benefits from minerals vested under the land are engaging in coal mining lack of monitoring mining activities are spread across too vast an area spreading over four districts
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