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A Report on Child Labour in Mica Mines of Koderma & Giridih District of Jharkhand. January 10th, 2018 | Publications. The state of Jharkhand is extremely rich in mineral deposits and mica is one such mineral which is high on demand across the world. Two districts namely Giridih and Koderma (also known as the mica capital of India) have been the ...

Authorities in Jharkhand will crack down on the "mica mafia" by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation revealed the cover-up of child deaths in illegal mining. A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state ...

Aug 25, 2019· The commission recommended strict action against buyers of mica scraps from children and said a special drive to abolish child labour in the mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar should be carried out by the administration. "Strict actions may be taken against the buyers who buy mica scraps from the children," it said.

Aug 22, 2017· Jharkhand comes next in the list with an estimated production of 2110 tons of mica in the year 2013-14. Mines of mica are found in Giridih and Kodarma districts of the state.

Aug 03, 2016· BBA workers, who have been trying to stop child labour in Jharkhand's mica mines for almost a decade, said Madan's death and the six others in .

The mica mines of Bihar and Jharkhand are compelling over 5,000 children to lead lives of perpetual exploitation. More than 22,000 children in India | Image credit - IB Times . A revered international development agency called Terre Des Hommes came up with an interesting report last year.

NEW DELHI: Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers ...

Children abandon education to work in mica mines of Jharkhand An international development agency working in India, revealed last year that more than 22,000 children are employed as child labourers in the mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar.

India's mica mines: The shameful truth behind mineral make-up's shimmer In the hills of Jharkhand in India, child labourers mine the mica that brings sparkle to the world.

Dec 05, 2018· Gudiya, 13, breaks away pieces of mica from rocks in an illegal open cast mine in Koderma district in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, June 29, 2016.

Deadly work. The abandoned mica mines start shimmering under the rising sun in Koderma, Jharkhand, as a group of sleepy children trudges towards the Charki mine holding their tools.

May 04, 2017· A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand in August found at least seven children had died in just two months in illegal mines - as they picked and sorted the prized ...

Sep 30, 2016· A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market had resulted in at least seven children being killed since June, mining .

Oct 22, 2019· Broken nails are possibly the least of all the horrors of mica scavenging in and around abandoned mines in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand. Broken nails are possibly the least of all the horrors of mica scavenging in and around abandoned mines in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand. Exploitative child labour, death by suffocation ...

May 08, 2017· Activists lauded the decision to legalise mica mining, but warned that high poverty levels meant the move was unlikely to stop child labour. Two states in eastern India, Jharkhand and Bihar ...

Eliminate child labour from mica mining in Jharkhand, says Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi Description: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said innovative approach of creating 'Bal Mitra Grams' (child friendly villages) in Jharkhand has proved that eradication of child labour was possible with the .

"The majority of mica mining takes place in Jharkhand and Bihar, but there are hardly any legal mines in these states, so the mica from these states is exported using the licenses of legal mines ...

This list of mines in India is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working,and very poor country defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list. In India, the underground mine to surface mine ratio is 20:80 [citation needed

Women collect scrap mica from an open cast mine inside a forest at Dhodhakola in Koderma district of Jharkhand. Mica is a crystalline silicate that neatly cleaves into sheets and lends itself to ...

Over 5,000 children abandon education in mica mines of Jharkhand, Bihar; some working as child labourers ver 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica ...

Aug 23, 2019· "Giridih and Koderma districts of Jharkhand are rich in mica mineral. The local Santhal tribal population is completely dependent on mica mining to earn its livelihood," Jairam, who works with a local non-profit Savera Foundation, told Gaon Connection. Officially, mica mining was banned in Jharkhand some two decades back.

Read more about Mica mining revival in Jharkhand on the cards on Business Standard. Mica mining during Bihar regime had been stopped for over two decades resulting in unemployment of thousands of people owing to sick of the mica industries.

May 31, 2019· Jharkhand's Koderma and Giridih districts are home to a number of abandoned mica mines. There were nearly 700 mines at one time when mica mining was .

Jul 09, 2019· The mica mines in the region, many of which are run by cartels, are more than willing to take advantage of this. While employing miners under the age of eighteen is illegal, it is estimated that around 20,000 children and teenagers in Jharkhand are working for mica mines. However, it's hard to say if this is the true number, given that all of ...
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