Jan 17, 2019· Shillong: More than a month after 15 miners were trapped inside an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, Navy divers "detected" a body inside the main shaft of the mine using an remotely-operated underwater vehicle (ROV) on Wednesday evening. As per East Jaintia Hills district public relations officer R Susngi, the body was detected at a depth of 210 ft inside the ...
In Lumthari village where Ali and his fellow miners went to work, coal is found roughly between 200-500 feet underneath the ground. Asked on what prompted him to go and work in the dangerous coal mines of Meghalaya, Ali said the mines promised a big amount of money at the end of the week. "I earn between Rs 800-1500 on a full day of work at the ...
Meghalaya coal mines are death traps for ill-equipped. Shillong/Khliehriat, Aug. 29: The coal mines in Meghalaya are death traps, feel many migrant labourers who are engaged in extracting the black gold by adopting unscientific rat-hole mining methods. Because of the hazardous nature of work, the labourers continue to perish in the deep and ...
Panna/Bhopal: No lessons seem to have been learnt from the Meghalaya coal mine tragedy. Even as nearly 20 died in separate incidents over the past few weeks while illegally mining coal in the northeastern state, similar operations — for coal's sparkling derivative — continue to endanger lives in Madhya Pradesh.
"Rat-hole" mining was banned in 2014 by India's National Green Tribunal following a petition that said the acidic discharge from the coal mines was polluting the Kopili River downstream. Mine owners in Meghalaya, which has an estimated 576 million metric tonnes of coal reserves, have challenged the ban in the Supreme Court.
Dec 20, 2018· Scores of unemployed young people from Panbari go to Meghalaya's mines knowing very well that they are death traps. They say they need .
Dec 28, 2018· The miners are trapped in a 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in the Ksan area of Lumthari village in Meghalaya since December 13. The Indian Air Force (IAF), Coal India Limited (CIL) and leading pump manufacturing company Kirloskar Brothers' Limited are already a part of the rescue team trying to bring out the 15 stranded miners from the illegal ...
Killer coal mines of Meghalaya: Livelihood or death-trap? Anti-mining activist Agnes Kharshiing is recovering after a near fatal attack on her that took place while she was trying to take pictures of trucks ferrying coal from the mines of East Jaintia Hills on November 8 last year Kharshiing has been particularly vocal about the alleged ...
Dec 27, 2018· A total of 15 miners are trapped in a 370-foot-deep illegal mine in the Ksan area of Lumthari village in Meghalaya since December 13. The NDRF had .
Workers in the coal mines are promised about 2,000 rupees ($28.46) per day, more than 10 times the average Indian daily wage. When the anti-trafficking charity Impulse NGO Network surveyed rat-hole mines in Meghalaya between 2007 and 2013, it found 1,200 children, many of whom were trafficked from Nepal and Bangladesh. Mining -A death trap
Jul 20, 2019· Caught Between Coal Mafia and Flooding Dangers, Meghalaya Mine Was Disaster From Day One. The coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, where 14 workers are trapped since a week, has put the spotlight on rampant illegal coal mining in the state, despite a ban by National Green Tribunal in 2014.
Recent mining mishap in Meghalaya has brought the focus back on the illegal mining ... Poverty forces 'rat-hole' miners into death traps; ... In about 3,500 illegal coal mines in Raniganj area ...
Jan 17, 2019· It's a death trap for us either way." Meanwhile, Muktakin Rahman, working president, All Bodoland Minority Students' Union (ABMSU), Bijni district committee, has urged the Meghalaya government to close the coal mines as soon as possible. "Despite the ban, extraction of coal mines .
Jan 17, 2019· New Delhi: Navy divers detected the body of one person on Wednesday more than a month after operations began to search and rescue 15 miners trapped in a deep coal mine in Meghalaya.
Solibar Rahman stopped working in Meghalaya's illegal coal mines in 2012. The native of this village in western Assam's Chirang district is, however, confident of his skills and is now bracing for one last attempt to rappel down the 380-foot coal mine at Ksan in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district to search for his son, who had not returned from the mine since December 13.
Coal mining in Meghalaya enjoys political patronage because elections are funded by coal barons. Several elected MLAs are coal-mine owners. In fact, it would be interesting to find out which politician, which bureaucrat and which police official does not own a coal mine. The MP from Shillong constituency, Vincent Pala, and his family, own mines.
Jan 12, 2019· Meghalaya's rat hole traps ... What fast-tracked the NGT ban was the presumed death of 15 miners at Nengkol in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district on July 6, 2012. ... "Coal mining in ...
Jan 14, 2019· The disappearance of 15 Meghalaya miners reminds us again of the failure of the authority concerned to comply with the National Green Tribunal's order to impose ban on coal mining .
Dec 20, 2018· Scores of unemployed young people from Panbari go to Meghalaya's mines knowing very well that they are death traps. They say they need the money, Rs 2,000 rupees a day. "People are very poor here.
Meghalaya mine tragedy: Rescue operation on, no success yet ... the privately owned rat-hole mines in the coal belts of Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya to earn a living by putting life on the edge ...
Dec 29, 2018· Asked on what prompted him to go and work in the dangerous coal mines of Meghalaya, Mr Ali said the mines promised a big amount of money .
Trapped miner's father wants to rappel down Meghalaya mine to look for son. Bhangnamari (Assam): Solibar Rahman stopped working in Meghalaya's illegal coal mines in 2012. The native of this village in western Assam's Chirang district is, however, confident of his skills and is now bracing for one last attempt to rappel down the 380-foot coal mine at Ksan in Meghalaya's East Jaintia ...
17 still trapped in Meghalaya coal mine, says survivor Sayeb Ali, the 21-year-old survivor, had joined the ill-fated Meghalaya mine only 12 days before the tragedy.
Jan 08, 2019· Death traps: on Meghalaya's illegal mines ... The tardy response of the Centre and the State of Meghalaya to the plight of at least 15 workers trapped in a rat-hole coal mine since mid ...
