Rat-hole Mining at the Cost of the Lives of Workers!

Meghalaya is one of India’s top ten states as far as coal reserves go. But despite the ban of coal mining by the Green tribunal due to its hazardous activity killing workers in ‘accidents’, illegal coal mining thrives in the state primarily because a large number of those mines are owned and controlled by politicians, bureaucrats and police officers[…]

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