Water-filled quarrying pits in MP turn death traps in disguise

Quarrying pits left behind after mining operations, especially while extracting minor minerals like murram and stones, are turning into death traps for resident in MP. Most of such pits are created whenever there is large scale mining or excavation for murram or stones in the outskirts of cities and towns to feed the construction activity within the urban areas A day after the incident, it was National Green Tribunal which expressed serious concern over the trend of deaths in such rainwater-filled mining pits and trenches and issued directions to the chief secretary to issue clear directions to the principal secretary and district collectors to immediately carry out inspection of all the existing mines in the state, stressing that conditions laid down in environmental clearances clearly say that the entire mining area should be fenced before starting the mining activity. UNCHECKED MENACE Sep 25, 2016: Seven children, aged 10 to 14, drown while bathing in a rain water-filled stone quarry in Guna district July 29: A seven-year-old tribal girl drowns in a rainwater-filled stone quarry pit in Panna district July 23: Three children drown in a rainwater-filled trench in Sagar district. RECENT ATTACKS BY MINING MAFIA IN MP June 1, 2016: Sub-divisional magistrate of Raisen district DK Singh was gheroed by the mining mafia in Begumganj area of the district when he tried to stop illegal mining of murram soil in Begumganj April 2: Mining mafia attacks a forest guard in the forests of Shivpuri district, as vengeance for taking action against them two years ago for illegal transportation of mined stone. March 6: In Morena district, a 14 year boy is killed in a gun fire exchange between two warring groups over control of illegal sand mining business through Jaur-Khurd area after excavation from Chambal.