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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.

In Lumthari village where Ali and his fellow miners went to work, coal is found roughly between 200500 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 on a full day of work at the ...

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 .

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 380foot 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.

Dec 26, 2018· Fifteen miners are trapped in an illegal "rathole" mine in Meghalaya, and their families have given up hope that they''ll be rescued alive. The unscientific mining of coal using small horizontal holes along the coal seams has been banned .

Meghalaya mine tragedy: Rescue operation on, no success yet ... the privately owned rathole mines in the coal belts of Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya to earn a living by putting life on the edge ...

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 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 rathole coal mine since mid ...

Jan 04, 2019· 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, .

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.

Killer coal mines of Meghalaya: Livelihood or deathtrap? Antimining 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 ...

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 380foot coal mine at Ksan in Meghalaya''s East Jaintia ...

Jan 12, 2019· Meghalaya''s rat hole traps ... What fasttracked 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 ...

Recent mining mishap in Meghalaya has brought the focus back on the illegal mining ... Poverty forces ''rathole'' miners into death traps; ... In about 3,500 illegal coal mines in Raniganj area ...

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 .

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 remotelyoperated 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 ...

Jan 11, 2019· Meghalaya mines: Death traps in rat holes One of India''s smallest states Meghalaya (population million) has 3,394 coal mine owners and is now plagued with illegal and unregulated mines, which are becoming death traps for the young workers

Dec 28, 2018· The miners are trapped in a 370footdeep 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 ...

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.

17 still trapped in Meghalaya coal mine, says survivor Sayeb Ali, the 21yearold survivor, had joined the illfated Meghalaya mine only 12 days before the tragedy.

Dec 15, 2018· Worker deaths in Meghalaya''s coal mines are frequent – but often undocumented. The rathole mining technique is a death trap, people involved in .

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.

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 rathole mining methods. Because of the hazardous nature of work, the labourers continue to perish in the deep and dark tunnels while digging for coal.

Dec 27, 2018· A total of 15 miners are trapped in a 370footdeep illegal mine in the Ksan area of Lumthari village in Meghalaya since December 13. The NDRF had .
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