RAT HOLE MINING
It is a well known fact that 15 miners are stuck in a Rat Hole Mine in the Meghalya State of India since December 13 of 2018.
A news Article is now flashing that Indian Navy found the Dead Body of one of the miner in the search operation . It is hard to guess what happed with the remaining 14 miners and clear picture will only emerge after any official statement f the operation search team.
The official Confirmation of Indian Navy regarding the body of miner is as follows :-
#MeghalayaMineTragedy #Flash One body detected by Indian Navy Divers using Underwater ROV at a depth of approx 60 feet and 210 feet inside a rat-hole mine @SpokespersonMoD @DefenceMinIndia @nsitharaman @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/sP1sv6ikRn— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) January 17, 2019
#MeghalayaMineTragedy The depth is 160 feet (and not 60 feet) and the body has been pulled upto the mouth of Rat-hole mine and shall be extracted out of the mine under the supervision of Doctors— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) January 17, 2019
So What is meant By Rat Hole Mine :-
⇨ Rat Hole Mines are Horizontal tunnels, around 3 to 4 Feet high with longitudinal spread of as high as 160 feet. The one in news is estimated of 160 ft length. Even holes as long as 300 ft have also been noticed by Journalist in the Meghalya. Workers need to crawl in such mines for extracting coal. These Pits are called small scale mines and operates beyond the scope of Coal Mines Nationalisation Act.
⇨ So What actually happened ? 15 workers were mining in one such mine situated in East Jaintia Hills of Meghalya. The water from the adjacent 'Lytein' river gushed in to the mine and thus entrapping the miners in to the mine itself.
⇨ They are basically illegal, un-monitored mines and coal is extracted by workers using pick axes. It is estimated that annually around 5 metric tonnes of coal is extracted from such mines. Practice is in general unique to Meghalya. Coal output of these mines are even used by industries in the state.
⇨ Illegal mines also causes major problems to the surrounding environment and it is said that such mining activities destroy the environment, pollute the water and kill the fish etc.
⇨ National Green Tribunal had put a blanket ban on Coal mining Activities in Meghalya around four years ago. A step taken in a right spirit has unfortunately helped in the increase of the ill legal mining activities in Mehalaya. It is estimated that mining activities prior to this ban were giving the state a revenue of around 700 Crore.
⇨ Several activist opposing the idea of Rat Hole Mines have been severely injured allegedly by Mine Mafia in recent past.
⇨ Rat Hole Mines are Horizontal tunnels, around 3 to 4 Feet high with longitudinal spread of as high as 160 feet. The one in news is estimated of 160 ft length. Even holes as long as 300 ft have also been noticed by Journalist in the Meghalya. Workers need to crawl in such mines for extracting coal. These Pits are called small scale mines and operates beyond the scope of Coal Mines Nationalisation Act.
⇨ So What actually happened ? 15 workers were mining in one such mine situated in East Jaintia Hills of Meghalya. The water from the adjacent 'Lytein' river gushed in to the mine and thus entrapping the miners in to the mine itself.
⇨ They are basically illegal, un-monitored mines and coal is extracted by workers using pick axes. It is estimated that annually around 5 metric tonnes of coal is extracted from such mines. Practice is in general unique to Meghalya. Coal output of these mines are even used by industries in the state.
⇨ Illegal mines also causes major problems to the surrounding environment and it is said that such mining activities destroy the environment, pollute the water and kill the fish etc.
⇨ National Green Tribunal had put a blanket ban on Coal mining Activities in Meghalya around four years ago. A step taken in a right spirit has unfortunately helped in the increase of the ill legal mining activities in Mehalaya. It is estimated that mining activities prior to this ban were giving the state a revenue of around 700 Crore.
⇨ Several activist opposing the idea of Rat Hole Mines have been severely injured allegedly by Mine Mafia in recent past.
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