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 land for generations.
The ban was a
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