Asha Devi sensed something was amiss when a wisp of smoke shot out of a hitherto unnoticed crack in the floor of her one-room house a year ago. The ordeal is similar for some 1 lakh families in New Colony and other settlements at 595 identified sites within a 27,000-hectare area where the public-sector BCCL mines coal. The public sector …
On November 26, 2021, four people viz. As per these amendments all the existing mining lessees are required to submit the "Progressive Mine Closure Plan" along with prescribed financial sureties within 180 days from the date of notification. Progressive Mine Closure Plan would indicate various land use activities to be done continuously and sequentially during the entire period of the …
Umesh Bhuian, an unorganized sector labourer, succumbed to lung cancer in 2017. “None of the measures promised by Bharat Coking Coal Limited and the Dhanbad Municipal Corporation at the Ranchi meeting has been implemented yet, even though Greenpeace India ranked the coal town of Jharia the worst polluted city/town in the country twice, in a list of around 300.” Furthermore, …
A part of the mosque in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand collapsed due to major subsidence on Wednesday night. Aish Ahmad said, “some mining activity has been carried out in the area by private miners before the nationalisation of coal mines and subsidence might have taken place due to that.” Seven years back a small mosque at this locality had collapsed …
