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This was published 6 years ago. India's mica mines: The shameful truth behind mineral make-up's shimmer In the hills of Jharkhand in India, child labourers mine the mica that brings sparkle to the ...

BBA workers, who have been trying to stop child labour in Jharkhand's mica mines for almost a decade, said the latest deaths were just the tip of the iceberg, estimating fewer than 10 percent of ...

May 04, 2019· "The majority of mica mining takes place in Jharkhand and Bihar, but there are hardly any legal mines in these states, so the mica from these states is exported using the licenses of legal mines ...

Apr 16, 2014· Mica can be found in the mines of Jharkhand and Bihar. Most of it is extracted from illegal mines using child labour (in 2012, the export of mica was over eight times the country's officially ...

Aug 18, 2020· The state government also missed out on its mining royalties from mica mining in Koderma during the lockdown as the licenses owned by Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation (JSMDC) to ...

May 31, 2019· Jharkhand's Koderma and Giridih districts are home to a number of abandoned mica mines. There were nearly 700 mines at one time when mica mining was .

Oct 22, 2019· As the horrors of illegal mica mining grab global attention, there is pressure against cosmetic and other companies who procure mica from Jharkhand. Established in January 2017, the Paris-based Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) is now .

State mining department source said that Merck wanted allotment of mica mines in Jharkhand's mica zone in favour of Merck's six suppliers. But the source said Merck's suppliers did not provide the required documents needed for mining leases to the state government and so during interaction with the Merck's delegation with the senior ...

Jun 07, 2020· Women collect scrap mica from an open cast mine inside a forest at Dhodhakola in Koderma district of Jharkhand Mica is a crystalline silicate that neatly cleaves into sheets and lends itself to .

Aug 25, 2019· Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers to ...

Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 have reportedly shunned schools in three mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar to work as labourers to supplement their family income, said ...

In recognition of the worsening of the situation in Jharkhand due to the corona crisis, Daimler and Terre des Hommes Netherlands have also invested in COVID-19 mitigation measures in the mica ...

Nov 12, 2016· Women collect scrap mica from an open cast mine inside a forest at Dhodhakola in Koderma district of Jharkhand Mica is a crystalline silicate that neatly cleaves into sheets and lends itself to .

Aug 25, 2019· Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of .

Aug 18, 2020· Department of Mines and Geology is one of the important departments under Government of Jharkhand. The Department through District Mining Office regulates mineral administration, concession of mines and mineral, assessment and collection of mining revenue, and other enforcement measures within the district.

Aug 27, 2019· 5,000 Children Abandon Studies to Work in Mica Mines of Jharkhand, Bihar. The survey was conducted by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights after a report by Terre Des Hommes, an ...

After the British discovered vast mica deposits in the region in 1890, a railroad was laid through erstwhile south Bihar (now Jharkhand). Mining activities started soon after the discovery and trains were devoted just to carry mica.

Jan 10, 2018· A Report on Child Labour in Mica Mines of Koderma & Giridih District of Jharkhand. January 10th, 2018 | Publications. The state of Jharkhand is extremely rich in mineral deposits and mica is one such mineral which is high on demand across the world. Two districts namely Giridih and Koderma (also known as the mica capital of India) have been the ...

A revered international development agency called Terre Des Hommes came up with an interesting report last year. The report went on to establish that more than 22,000 children in India were employed in the mica mining industries of Bihar and Jharkhand. Taking a cue from this disturbing report, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights(NCPCR) conducted a survey in order to better ...

USSR was the biggest consumer of mica's extracted from Koderma and exported there for making space and military equipments. Later, Govt. of Bihar took over the mica mines under Bihar Mica Syndicate which got formed as Bihar State Mineral Development Corp. (now Jharkhand .

Apr 16, 2014· Mica can be found in the mines of Jharkhand and Bihar. Most of it is extracted from illegal mines using child labour (in 2012, the export of mica was over eight times the country's officially ...

New Delhi: Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers to supplement their family income, according to a government survey.. The survey was conducted by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) after a report by Terre Des Hommes, an ...

Illegal mica mining still continues in Jharkhand and employs several women and children to scavenge for the mineral. Photo by Gurvinder Singh. "The abandoned mines were illegally taken up by local contractors, who began to dig pits to find mica and employed children and women not only because of cheap labour but their supple hands were ...

Jul 31, 2020· A new policy framework has been introduced to regulate the mica mining sector. The Sustainable Mica Policy and Vision was prepared by the Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) along with a coalition of mica-using industries and civil society organisations, as well as the State Government of Jharkhand, India, where 40% of the world's mica is mined.
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