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Apr 19, 2019· But something was about to change. The message of responsible mica sourcing began to be hammered into the boardrooms of multinationals using mica for glittery lipsticks, shiny cars and everyday electronics. News outlets from various western countries started to send reporters to Jharkhand's mica mines. Film crews appeared.

Apr 16, 2014· But the process of extraction of these minerals, particularly mica, using child labour in India is now causing concern. Mica can be found in the mines of Jharkhand and Bihar. Most of it is ...

Jul 09, 2019· The mica mines in the region, many of which are run by cartels, are more than willing to take advantage of this. While employing miners under the age of eighteen is illegal, it is estimated that around 20,000 children and teenagers in Jharkhand are working for mica mines. However, it's hard to say if this is the true number, given that all of ...

Child Workers Dying In Jharkhand Mines. Government Cracks ... · Authorities in Jharkhand will crackdown on "mica mafia" by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation revealed the cover-up of child deaths in illegal mining.

Underground mining was legal in Jharkhand before the Forest Conservation Act came into effect in 1980. Mining companies began to wind-up as the government stopped issuing fresh leases. By 2000, mica mining ground to a complete halt. And that is when the illegal scavenging started.

Global Spotlight on Illegal Mica Mines Drives Jharkhand Villagers to Hide Deaths "I will never go back (to the mica mines), never ever again. I tell other children the same thing."

Koderma district is rich in minerals. The Koderma district and the Lokai-Indarwa area covers the southern part of Great Mica-Belt of Jharkhand, Bihar and India. Previously the Mica belt was known as Bihar mica belt which extends for a distance of 160 km having an average width of 25 kms.

"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 ...

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 ...

Jharkhand has large deposits of minerals, providing a solid launching pad for mining and mineral based industries. With 40% of nation's mineral reserves, the state government is committed to rapid industrial development by leveraging the advantage the state provides due to the presence of .

Children abandon education to work in mica mines of Jharkhand An international development agency working in India, revealed last year that more than 22,000 children are employed as child labourers in the mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar.

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 11, 2016· Authorities in Jharkhand will crackdown on "mica mafia" by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation revealed the cover-up of child deaths in illegal mining.

The mica mines of Bihar and Jharkhand are compelling over 5,000 children to lead lives of perpetual exploitation. More than 22,000 children in India | Image credit - IB Times . A revered international development agency called Terre Des Hommes came up with an interesting report last year.

Aug 03, 2016· BBA workers, who have been trying to stop child labor in Jharkhand's mica mines for almost a decade, said Madan's death and the six others in .

Nov 21, 2019· Yet according to an exposé published this week by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, illegal mining remains rampant in Jharkhand, a major mica mining state where children continue to .

Oct 22, 2019· Broken nails are possibly the least of all the horrors of mica scavenging in and around abandoned mines in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand. Exploitative child labour, death by suffocation in mining shafts, severe health hazards such as tuberculosis for the impoverished workers who have nothing else to turn to for a living are .

Nov 20, 2019· But returning this year to two major mica hubs in Jharkhand state - Koderma and Giridih - the Thomson Reuters Foundation found mining was largely unchecked and .

Aug 31, 2016· The impoverished population of Jharkhand State mine for mica despite it being banned. This is destroying the state's nature reserve, but the world's growing interest in mica-based cosmetics ...

May 08, 2017· Activists lauded the decision to legalise mica mining, but warned that high poverty levels meant the move was unlikely to stop child labour. Two states in eastern India, Jharkhand and Bihar ...

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

in the mica supply chain, with a special focus on Dutch companies, as well as the due diligence conducted by these companies; and 3) to look into pending initiatives to eradicate child labour. The research revealed that mica mining is an impor-tant source of income for hundreds of villages in Jharkhand and Bihar. The mining entails more than

Mar 14, 2018· The report also tries to examine the status of risk-based due diligence processes for mica among different industries. Labour conditions, as well as production, export and import statistics around mica mining in the fifteen largest non-western and five largest western mica .

Both states Bihar and Jharkhand, straddled by the so-called "mica belt", account for a significant share of Indian mica*. This same region is prone to labor abuses and the use of child labor. Hence the current scope of the Responsible Mica Initiative is focused on mica sourcing and processing in Jharkhand .
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