Nov 12, 2016 0183 32 The Indian Bureau of Mines lists only 21 underground mica mines, and just 244 leases, and mica production officially is a mere 19,000 tonn Yet exports are recorded as 1,40,310 tonnes in 2014-15 ....
Nov 19, 2019 0183 32 After watching her sister-in-law and a friend die in a mica mine in eastern India in March this year, 15-year-old Ritika Murmu vowed she would never again pick ,...
Aug 10, 2016 0183 32 Jharkhand s Secretary for Mines Sunil Kumar Barnwal said he was aware of child labor in mica but was taken aback by the number of children dying in the illegal mines estimated to produce 70 percent of India s annual mica output He vowed to legalize some mines from early 2017 and take a zero-tolerance approach to local mica mafias - a nexus of ....
Aug 08, 2016 0183 32 By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI Thomson Reuters Foundation - Authorities in eastern India will crack down on mica mafia by starting to legalize 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 of Jharkhand found that a flourishing ....
Giridih District, Jharkhand, India, 2018 Women work inside a Mica mine Many women suffer from asthma, bronchitis and silicosis Giridih District, Jharkhand, India, 2018 70 of Mica production in India comes from illegal mining and the Mica is exported to countries around the world where it is used for the production of cosmetics products...
Nov 20, 2021 0183 32 The event saw two pertinent panel discussions related to child labour in mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar The first discussion focused on change through access to ,...
MICA AND MINOR MINERAL MINING IN JHARKHAND - Jharkhand is the 15th largest Indian state by area6 79,710 km2/ 30,778 sq mi , and 14th largest by population 329 lacs or 33 million Despite more than 40 of national mineral resources, a significant proportion of ,...
Aug 08, 2016 0183 32 Jharkhand s secretary for mines Sunil Kumar Barnwal said he was aware of child labour being used but was taken aback by the number of children dying in the illegal mines estimated to produce 70 per cent of India s annual mica output He vowed to legalise some mines from early 2017 and take a zero-tolerance approach to local mica mafias - a ....
Champa Kumari was 12 years old when she was rescued from a mica mine in Jharkhand by our sister organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan BBA Stars in her eyes, she wanted to study, but her father was against it However, her brothers supported her and we helped her enrol in school Currently, she is the Vice President of National Maha Bal Panchayat...
30 Investigations on Koderma region mica mines India is the major producer and exporter of sheet mica and various forms of mica products Presently, major mica producing states /districts are Jharkhand Hazaribagh, Koderma and Giridh districts ,Bihar Nawada ,...
I n India mica is sourced in a number of states including principally Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Rajasthan Both states Bihar and Jharkhand, straddled by the so-called mica belt , account for a significant share of Indian mica This same ,...
Oct 09, 2020 0183 32 Illegal Mica Mining Continues Unabated in Jharkhand, Causing Death and Disease A 16-year-old goes into a rat-hole mine to search for mica in Giridih district in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, June 27, 2016 Photo Reuters/Nita ,...
May 04, 2019 0183 32 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 ,...
Oct 07, 2020 0183 32 Some 100 dumps of old mica mines were auctioned in 2017 under a former Bharatiya Janata Party BJP government in Jharkhand, he added Tenders were also floated for auctioning of two mica mines, one each in Giridih and Koderma last year, Mihir Salkar, District Mining Officer, Koderma, told Mongabay-India...
Jul 23, 2020 0183 32 Mica Mining, Child Labor, and Poverty Among the mica-producing regions of India, Jharkhand and Bihar alone account for about three-quarters of the total revenue earned from exports in the country It has been observed that a fair share of the workforce in this region is made up of underage children, some even as young as five years old...
Aug 02, 2016 0183 32 BBA workers, who have been trying to stop child labor in Jharkhand s mica mines for almost a decade, said Madan s death and the six others in the past two months were just the tip of the iceberg, estimating fewer than 10 percent of mica mine deaths are reported to the police Although there are no official figures on child deaths in the mines ....
Nov 23, 2021 0183 32 District Mining Office Koderma Koderma is one of the districts of Jharkhand which is blessed with abundant natural resources and rich mineral deposits throughout the district Earlier it was famous for production of world class mica and was known as the Mica Capital of India or Abrakh-Nagri Having more than numerous Mica Mining leases spread ....
Mica Scavenging In Jharkhand Destroys Lives And Rampant child labour As many as 5,000 children between the ages of six and 14 have dropped out of school in three mica mining districts of Jharkhand and adjoining state of Bihar to work as scavengers, according to a recent survey by Indias National Commission for Protection of Child Rights NCPCR...
Nov 12, 2016 0183 32 The Indian Bureau of Mines lists only 21 underground mica mines, and just 244 leases, and mica production officially is a mere 19,000 tonn ,...
Dec 05, 2018 0183 32 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...
The s living in rural Jharkhand, especially in the districts of Koderma and Giridih, mining is the only source of income for them The local Santhal tribal population depends completely on these mines for their living, spending around eight hours of the day ,...
Jan 10, 2018 0183 32 A Report on Child Labour in Mica Mines of Koderma Giridih District of Jharkhand 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 key mica suppliers around the world...
Aug 23, 2019 0183 32 Till the 1980s, mica mining was a flourishing business in Bihar Jharkhand was part of Bihar then as majority of the mined mica was exported to the then USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for space and military equipment production In ,...
Oct 22, 2019 0183 32 Mica scavenging in Jharkhand destroys lives and environment Several thousands of women and children scour mica for a pittance in illegal and abandoned ,...
Jan 22, 2021 0183 32 Reuters Thursday August 11, 2016 Authorities in Jharkhand will crackdown on mica mafia by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior ,...
Oct 14, 2020 0183 32 The illegal mica mining in Jharkhand threatens the lives of locals, and has resulted in many deaths in the state India has large reserves of mica, mostly found under forests in central and eastern parts of the country The south-Asian nation was once one of the largest producers of mica, with more than 700 mines and 20,000 workers employed in ....
Jul 12, 2021 0183 32 Dark side of mica mining Child labour As per the report presented by NGO terre des hommes, approx 22,000 children were engaged in mica scavengingAs per the survey of NCPCR National Commission for Protection of Child Rights around 5000 children of the age six to fourteen years are engaged in mica extractionIt is the data of Jharkhand and Bihar Imagine what the real ,...