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Shillong The Supreme Court judgment on July 3 2024 by Justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph on Meghalaya rat hole coal mining is an unparalleled indictment of the claim of the tribes of Meghalaya as represented by the Autonomous District Councils ADC that they have unrestrained rights to exploit their lands including for mining coal
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In April 2024 NGT had banned the indiscriminate and hazardous rat hole coal mining in Meghalaya Many workers got trapped in the illegal and unsafe mines and subsequently died five in May/June last year but only three bodies were retrieved from the flooded coal mine after hectic efforts for over 27 days in East Jaintia Hills district in
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Rat hole mine workers overlook the risks because of the relatively high wages they earn Rs 600 2 000 daily We crawl up to 30 feet inside the rat hole which could be 3 4 feet high We know there is a risk of being trapped in water or buried alive in case of a cave in
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Rat Hole Mining Meghalaya The fate of 15 miners trapped in a flooded rat hole mine in Meghalaya s East Jaintia Hills district since 13 Dec remain unknown Rescuers battle with the water level
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Shillong Nov 10 PTI Demanding legalisation of rat hole mining of coal Meghalaya s Rajya Sabha MP WR Kharlukhi asked why would people dependent on it suffer because of policy failure Kharlukhi the State president of the ruling NPP in Meghalaya said he was aware of the negative impacts of
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Four years after the National Green Tribunal ordered a ban on coal mining in Meghalaya illegal practices continue unabated in the state putting lives at risk every day A top police officer told media that it took them long to locate the quarry as local people were scared to divulge information fearing a backlash from mine owners
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May 30 2024 Five miners are trapped and feared dead after a dynamite blast flooded a mine in the East Jaintiah hills of Meghalaya Rescue operations begin two weeks after the accident and divers recover three lifeless bodies from the flooded depths of an illegal rat hole mine January 21 2024 6 miners are killed as their crane collapses
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Ecology In their petition to the NGT Assam s All Dimasa Students Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee complained that rat hole mining in Meghalaya had caused the water in the Kopili river it flows through Meghalaya and Assam to turn acidic The NGT order quoted a report by Prof Singh Entire roadsides in and around mining areas are used for piling of coal which is a major
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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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Rat Hole Mining Meaning Impacts on Environment Notes for UPSC Rat hole mining is a process which involves digging very small tunnels usually about 3 4 feet deep in which workers more often children enter and extract coal Meghalaya predominantly engages in rat hole mining because of difficult terrain and nature of coal available in
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There is no feasible blueprint for feasible coal mining in Meghalaya It will only be rat hole mining This is illegal and promote illegal trades in the coal belt Kharshiing said
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Meghalaya government has requested CIL to assist in search and rescue operation 27 Dec 2024 PM IST Rat hole mining rampant in Meghalaya despite NGT ban Four years after the National Green Tribunal ordered a ban on coal mining in Meghalaya illegal practices continue unabated in the state putting lives at risk every day
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The government in November this year challenged the NGT ban in the Supreme Court By India Today Web Desk As rescue efforts were intensified on Friday to reach the 15 labourers trapped in a rat hole mine in Meghalaya s East Jaintia Hills district Congress s Shillong MP Vincent Pala expressed apprehensions that it might be too late
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What is rat hole mining Quora Rat hole mining is a process of digging holes to make narrow tunnels to extract coal It is a illegal process which is still practiced in some north eastern region Rat hole mining can be done in two ways cutting The tunnel is dug from a side of a hill and this tunnel give access to Get a quote
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Dec 14 2024· The National Green Tribunal has banned unscientific and unsafe rat hole coal mining in Meghalaya since 2024 According to the SP the labourers have engaged in the rat hole coal mine near Lytein river around three days ago and due to the overflowing of water they are all feared dead
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A tragedy that was long in the making Illegal rat hole mining in Meghalaya persists despite ruinous effects on the environment January 25 2024 12 15 am Updated 12 15 am IST
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Rat hole mining is specific to Meghalaya because the coal seam is very thin here so other type of mining will not work because a lot of overburden waste will be generated Singh told Mongabay India An extremely dangerous method rat hole mining is a practice unique to the state because of the thinness of the coal layer
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Context of Rat hole Mining Recently the collapse of a coal mine in Meghalaya s East Jaintia Hills in which 15 workers were trapped has thrown the spotlight on a procedure known as rat hole mining The disaster that struck a coal mine at Ksan in Meghalaya s Jaintia Hills district trapping at least 13 workers is a shocking reminder that a fast growing economy such as India
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The attack on an activist in a coal belt in India s northeast frontier state of Meghalaya has spotlighted the issue of ecological degradation from rat hole mining and the outlawed activities continuing in defiance of a ban on this unscientific sub surface mining technique in the In November well known Meghalaya activist Agnes Kharshiing and her companion were brutally
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NGT ban on rat hole mining in Meghalaya to continue Down to Earth report by Anupam Chakravartty 11 June 2024 [click to view] 12 Supreme Court hears the case of coal mining ban [click to view] 15 The role of coal mining for the state elections in Meghalaya [click to view] 16 Promise of the opposition to lift the coal ban within 8 months of
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Meghalaya reportedly exports 5 8 lakh tonnes of coal to Bangladesh every year at a price of $52 approx Rs 3 800 /tonne In April 2024 the National Green Tribunal NGT ordered a ban on coal mining in Meghalaya which is primarily conducted through rat hole mines and also the transportation of coal extracted thus
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Meghalaya reported its latest accident in a rat hole mine two weeks ago On 31 May five miners reportedly from Assam and Tripura trapped in a coal mine in East Jaintia Hills District after a dynamite blast led to flooding of water from a nearby water source The rescue operation to find the miners is still going on
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