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is mandatory and this must be ensured from children
rescued from labour in mines.
health impacts on children living and working in mining
areas and considering the high levels of environmental
pollution and occupational diseases as a result of
mining the Ministry needs to have delivery services
that will address critical child health and mortality
issues, especially related to pollution, contamination,
toxicity, disappearance of resources like water bodies
that have affected the nutrition and food security of the
communities, etc.
agreement and the Rehabilitation Plan should clearly
specify the impacts on and plans for children which must
begin before the mining project begins in a time-bound
manner. This includes decent and adequate housing with
toilet and Potable drinking water, good quality schools
within the rehabilitation/resettlement colony, electricity,
anganwadi centre with supplementary nutrition to
pregnant women and single mothers, colleges, health
institutions, roads and transport.
result in the cancellation of the lease. Penalties should be
defined for non-implementation of rehabilitation as per
projected plans and assessments with recommendations
made by the monitoring committee.
caused to children and their environment in the existing
mines with a clear time frame which will be scrutinised
by the independent committee at regular intervals as
agreed upon. The clean up should also state the budget
allocated by each company for this purpose and provide
details of expenditure incurred, to the committee.
established so that it is not restricted to immediate
short term monetary relief, but should show long
term sustainability of the communities and workers,
including post-mining land reclamation and livelihood
programmes that have measurable outputs. A share
from the taxes or profits shared by the companies should
be ploughed into institutions for children.
clean up and institutional mechanisms are in place. No
private mining leases should be granted in the Scheduled
Areas and the Samatha Judgement should be respected
in its true spirit.
Sector which is proposing the new Social Security
Bill should take into cognizance, the above legal and
policy recommendations, particularly with respect to
the migrant mine workers and include adequate social
security benefits that directly support development and
protection of children.
Overarching Recommendations
appropriate local governance institutions (district, block)
and the community with clarity in terms of quantity and
quality of ore that will be extracted, the extent of area
involved, demographic profile of this region, economic
planning for extraction that includes number of workers
required, nature of workers (local, migrant), type of
technology, social cost including wages, estimate of
workers and assured work period, providing (in the case
of migrant workers) residential facilities like housing,
basic amenities like drinking water, electricity, early
childhood care facilities, quality of education, toilet, PDS
facility and other requirements for a basic quality of life.
The resources for these must not be drawn upon from
public exchequer but recovered from the promoter.
first clean up the situation and redress the destruction