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130 attendance at birth, the high percentage of low birth rate babies and the lack of professional post-natal care in the state. For deaths of children under five years of age, diarrhoea accounts for 28 per cent, which can be linked to lack of access to safe drinking water, adequate nutrition and essential life-saving medicines, such as oral rehydration salts. 242 Again, the infant and child mortality rates are found to be higher amongst the adivasis. Immunisation coverage is also poorest in the case of the adivasis as compared to the total population. The ICDS, the only national scheme to address the health and nutrition needs of children under 6 years, has made significant progress in Orissa. The NFHS-3 found that Orissa was one of only three states where more than 50 per cent of children aged 0–71 months had received any service in the previous year from an anganwadi centre. 243 Orissa also has the highest percentage (43 per cent) of children receiving health checkups from an anganwadi centre. However, serious challenges remain for the state. There have been several shortcomings with the scheme in Orissa, including an irregular food supply in a number of areas. In 2007, it was revealed that although Orissa has the second highest (after Madhya Pradesh) number of women and children benefitting from the scheme, spending per beneficiary per day is lowest in Orissa, at only Rs. 0.59. 244 A number of factors have led to Orissa becoming vulnerable to trafficking problems. High levels of poverty, frequent natural disasters, chronic food insecurity and a large marginalised population have created the conditions which place people at risk of various forms of exploitation, such as trafficking. SCs, STs, landless labourers, women and children face particular risks in these situations. 245 The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data proves inadequate at analysing the trafficking situation in India, as most cases go unregistered and unreported. In 2007, there were only 41 cases registered under human trafficking in the state. 246 However, NGOs working in Orissa have reported a significant child trafficking problem in the state. 247 At least 26 out of the 30 districts are considered to be affected by trafficking. It is also often difficult to differentiate between trafficking and wilful migration, as there are a considerable number of children migrating, with or without their families, in search of work. 248 Girls are taken from Orissa to other states, such as Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, for coerced marriages. Women and girls are also trafficked for domestic work and other forms of labour, as well as prostitution. 249 Early marriage continues to be a problem in the state. In Orissa, almost 30 per cent of girls get married before 18 years of age and there is a high degree of inter-state variation. In the backward districts, such as Koraput, Kalahandi and Balangir, more than 50 per cent of girls are married before the age of 18. 250 However, in the coastal districts, such as Puri and Jajpur, less than 15 per cent of girls are married before the age of 18. Iron ore being loaded in Joda-Barbil area, Keonjhar (Photo July 2009) Mining in Orissa Orissa is very rich in minerals, and is currently the leading producer of chromite, graphite, bauxite, manganese ore, iron ore, sillimanite, quartzite, pyroxite and dolomite in India. In terms of value, Orissa’s mineral production is the second highest in the country, accounting for 12 per cent of the country’s production. In 2007-08, Orissa’s mineral production was valued at Rs. 129.87 billion, a huge increase of 29 per 242. Government of Orissa, Human Development Report, 2004. 243. NFHS-3, 2007. 244. Seventh Report of the Commissioners of the Supreme Court, November 2007. 245. Shakti Vahini, UNDP TAHA project, Trafficking and HIV Orissa, 2005. 246. NCRB, Crimes in India, Chapter 6, 2007. 247. Save the Children India, Child Trafficking, http://www.savethechildren.in/india/key_sectors/child_trafficking.html, uploaded: 7 September 2009. 248. Shakti Vahini, UNDP TAHA project, Trafficking and HIV Orissa, 2005. 249. Ibid. 250. Government of Orissa, Human Development Report, 2004.
131 cent from the previous year. 251 The most important minerals in the state are coal, bauxite, chromite, iron ore, manganese ore, limestone and dolomite. Together they constitute 99.2 per cent of the state’s total mineral production. In 2007-08, there were 227 reporting mines in the state. The total mine lease area covers 721,323 ha of land. This includes over 16,795 ha of forestland which has been officially diverted for mining. 252 NALCO conveyor belt (Photo by Samata) The major source of bauxite in Orissa is found in Koraput district, which produces 98.82 per cent of the state’s total bauxite production. The remaining 1.18 per cent of bauxite is found in Sundergarh district. 253 Fifty per cent of the state’s adivasis lives in these two districts. Damanjodi is a small town in Koraput district. The vast majority of the population of Damanjodi are employees of the National Aluminium Company (NALCO), a public sector enterprise of the Government of India, which is the world’s seventh largest producer of aluminium. NALCO operates Asia’s largest aluminium complex, which comprises bauxite mines, alumina refining operations, smelting plants and power generation. The NALCO mines have bauxite reserves expected to last for 120 years. Despite this, Koraput is still classified as a ‘backward district’ by the government and 83.8 per cent of the population here live below the poverty line. 254 With the inception of the New Economic Policy, the Government of Orissa has begun inviting both national and multinational companies to extract mineral resources in the state. The number of companies who have signed Memorandum of Understandings to set up steel plants in the state has increased to 50, including the South Korean multinational Pohan Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), which has agreed to construct a Rs. 580 billion steel plant near Paradip port. This will be the largest FDI in India’s history. 255 However, the local population in these areas, who are mostly SCs and STs, are resisting these projects, fearing displacement and a loss of livelihoods. 256 Orissa is an example of how every possible corporate crime and human rights violation happen when mining is involved and how a state’s doom is led by the havoc created by such large-scale mining. The region of Lanjigarh, in Kalahandi district, has come under severe pressure from mining development in recent years and is now the site of one of India’s most high profile mining struggles. In 2003, an agreement was signed between the Government of Orissa and the British Vedanta Group to establish a bauxite mine and alumina refinery in the Niyamgiri hills. However, the project has come under intense scrutiny and opposition from local communities, NGOs and environmental activists. Lanjigarh is the home of the Dongria Kondh tribe, with a population of 7,752. The community is objecting to the refinery project, which will displace them from their indigenous habitat and destroy their traditional forms of livelihood. That the government has entertained mining in Lanjigarh even while the existing adivasi struggles in neighbouring Kasipur of Koraput districts where the Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) project has been facing fierce opposition on similar grounds and was also witness to police firing and death of adivasis speaks of the brutal disregard to people’s voices of dissent. Displacement for mining activities is a major problem in Orissa. There are no up-to-date figures to reveal the number of people who have been displaced in the state for mining. However, between 1951 and 1995, around 100,000 people 251. Ministry of Mines, Annual Report 2008-09. 252. Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 234, dated 20.10.2008, Selected State-wise Forest Land Diverted for Mining by Ministry of Environment and Forests in India (25.10.1980 to 30.09.2008). 253. Department of Information and Public Relations, Government of Orissa, Orissa Review, November 2007. 254. Census of India 2001 255. Domain-b.com, Orissa steel project back on track, says POSCO, 27 August 2009, http://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_p/posco/20090827_steel_ project.html, uploaded: 10 September 2009. 256. Prajna Paramita Mishra, Second Colonialisation: Mining Induced Displacement in Orissa, Research Scholar, CESS, Hyderabad.
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India’s Childhood in the "Pits" A
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iii Acknowledgements This report, c
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Table of Contents About the Study 3
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4 List of states and districts visi
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15 National Overview Mining has imp
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27 2,055 children enrolled in Santu
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31 GURIA is a dark-eyed little girl
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35 In several districts of Rajastha
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37 Table 1.4: Total number of child
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39 Bearing in mind that many of the
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41 children are working in mines in
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43 significant problem. A study car
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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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52 and pursued higher education. Th
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62 the village were cough, eye infe
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65 Maharashtra State Overview Mahar
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69 poverty, (ii) education, (iii) h
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75 Table 2.06: Class-wise distribut
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Page 102 and 103: 102 Conclusions Panna, once a rich
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Page 114 and 115: 115 Jharkhand State Overview The st
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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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