Twelve Years After the Ban: The Long Road Back for Meghalaya’s Small Miners
By Shanbor Wahlang In April 2014, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered a complete stop to rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya. Rat-hole mining implies digging narrow tunnels by primitive tools and hands to extract coal. In Meghalaya, many families and clans had been mining coal from their own la…
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