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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 ...

Aug 23, 2019· "Giridih and Koderma districts of Jharkhand are rich in mica mineral. The local Santhal tribal population is completely dependent on mica mining to earn its livelihood," Jairam, who works with a local nonprofit Savera Foundation, told Gaon Connection. Officially, mica mining was banned in Jharkhand some two decades back.

Aug 25, 2019· The commission recommended strict action against buyers of mica scraps from children and said a special drive to abolish child labour in the mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar should be carried out by the administration. "Strict actions may be taken against the buyers who buy mica scraps from the children," it said.

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 .

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 .

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 .

May 04, 2019· On this episode of Shady, our host, Lexy Lebsack explores the unethically sourced ingredient that''s in almost all makeup products. She travels to the mica mines in .

"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 licences of legal mines ...

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

Koderma district is rich in minerals. The Koderma district and the LokaiIndarwa area covers the southern part of Great MicaBelt 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.

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 .

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 ...

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 [.]

Ugly truth behind global beauty industry. ... When Al Jazeera asked India''s mines secretary Anup K Pujari about illegal mica mining in Jharkhand, he replied: "What am I supposed to say? Well, the ...

Oct 28, 2018· According to an official statement issued by his office here, Satyarthi said this while addressing a public event in Jharkhand, where the state government, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Kailash Satyarthi Children''s Foundation have come together to eliminate child labour from mica mining.

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 .

Mica is an ingredient used widely in the cosmetics industry. We look at which companies are using illegally sourced Mica in their Make Up. ... confirmed findings of up to 20,000 child labourers being involved in the mining of the mineral along the border between Jharkhand and Bihar in North East India. ... Sourcing from legal gated mines only ...

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 ...

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 .

"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 ...

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."

Mar 14, 2018· The report also tries to examine the status of riskbased 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 nonwestern and five largest western mica .

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.

India''s mica mines: The shameful truth behind mineral makeup''s shimmer In the hills of Jharkhand in India, child labourers mine the mica that brings sparkle to the world.
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