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112 companies for their power plants, has affected agriculture in the entire block. For example, in Khamhariya villagers showed the three borewells that have no water as most of the acquifers are affected by coal extraction. The villagers expressed fear that their agricultural lands and cultivation will be further destroyed, going by their experiences since the mining started in this region. Given that malnourishment is significantly high in this region as reflected in the state reports, the critical state of water and agriculture have direct impacts on children whose food security is imminently in danger. The anger of the people is visibly evident in the agitations that are reverberating in the area, in opposition to the new projects being set up by the Jindals and others. (Acknowledgements: This case study was done in partnership with Jan Chetana Peoples Movement of Raigarh which is working on the human and environment rights violations by mining companies and industries in Chattisgarh. We acknowledge the support and assistance of Mr.Ramesh Agarwal and his team in facilitating the field visits and compilation of primary data.) Conclusions Chattisgarh, a state created in the name of the development of the adivasis, has turned into a state for indiscriminate plunder of mineral resources by mining corporates. Corporate violations and abuse on activists as well as community leaders are known to all, but it is difficult to legally hold them accountable. On the other hand, the corporates have gained notoriety for booking false cases on activists and community leaders who question this destruction and harass them ceaselessly. Poverty of the communities, pollution of the water bodies and air, encroachment of rich agricultural lands for mineral exploitation were glaringly visible but the thin lines between legitimacy and illegitimacy of activities, difficulties that communities have in surmounting legal and technical definitions of proving their health problems that relate to mining allow companies to escape and continue with rampant plunder of the land and destruction of water bodies. The shocking state of children’s education and health due to the abysmal services provided by the state compounded by ill-health due to mining induced pollution and starvation, do not reflect an economy that provides a just and healthy development for the children living in this region. Mining has put in disarray, not only the land and livelihoods, but also the resources and services that have made achievement of MDGs for children in the mining region of Chattisgarh, a far fetched goal. Again Chattisgarh has proved that, mineral ‘rich’ states, with a prolonged history of mining, overlap with some of the poorest human development indicators in this country.
113 EIA for Jindal coal mine in Chhattisgarh ignores threats Sujit Kumar, Source: Down To Earth Date: 15th feb 2008 The 4 million tonnes per annum opencast mine project called Gare IV/6 is sited in Tamnar block in highly industrialized Raigarh. During public hearing on January 5, about a hundred tribal people were injured in police lathicharge. People allege that Jindal supporters provoked violence when they raised objections to the EIA report and the hearing that was organized later than the stipulated time and without informing the panchayats, even though Tamnar falls under the Panchayat Extension to the Schedule Areas Act, 1996. People are angry that the hearing continued despite the fact that most of the people gathered for discussion had left after the lathicharge. The same day an FIR was filed in Tamnar police station against unknown people for damaging property at the hearing venue. Interestingly, the complainant was not the state pollution control board, which organized the public hearing, but the company. People have since resorted to road blockades and sit-in protests, demanding that the hearing be quashed. Fairy-tale ride for child miner Friday, June 12, 2009, Shreya Roy Chowdhury Times News Network On Friday, June 12—the World Day Against Child Labour— he will address a gathering at the International Labour Conference in Geneva. In a journey that’s especially remarkable for someone so young, Manan has gone from being a child labourer to being a child activist, and has already rescued eight children from exploitation. Working in the mica mines is ugly, but according to Manan, the residents of his village, Samsahiriya, cling to it tenaciously. Given their large families—his own has ten members—every rupee helps. Kids are put to work to supplement the family income. “More than half the children in our village are engaged in mining mica, and so are their parents. The youngest labourers are six or seven years old,’’ he says. http://www.ummid.com/news/June/12.09.2009/fairy_tale_ ride_for_child_miner.htm file:///D:/office/media%20reports/all%20mining%20astes/ Chattisgarh/EIA%20for%20Jindal%20coal%20mine%20in%20 Chhattisgarh%20ignores%20threats%20%20%20News%20%20 %20Down%20To%20Earth%20magazine.htm Clay mines kill Children pay for illegal mining operations in West Bengal Salahuddin Saiphy, Source: Down to Earth Date: 14th March 2009 THERE are about 20 mines, mostly illegal, in Salanpur village in Burdwan district. The district has rich deposits of coal, fire clay and iron ore. One among the 20, a fire clay mine, claimed two young lives on February 8 in the West Bengal village. Four and five year
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India’s Childhood in the "Pits" A
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Table of Contents About the Study 3
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17 Table 1.2: Number of illegal min
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27 2,055 children enrolled in Santu
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29 we will eat tomorrow,” said a
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31 GURIA is a dark-eyed little girl
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37 Table 1.4: Total number of child
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45 Part II State Reports 1. Karnata
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48 basic healthcare to its populati
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50 Kolar district: Key facts Total
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Page 122 and 123: 123 due to multiple government duti
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165 Andhra Pradesh State Overview T
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180 Whose Child is India’s Mining
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OUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE RIGHT TO IN
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200 Karnataka The tables below give
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202 Drop-out children brought back
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