The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Friday claimed that illegal mica mines in Koderma district of Jharkhand are now ‘child labour-free’. NCPCR chairperson Priyank ...

KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults ...

The mica mines in Jharkhand's Koderma district are now free from child labour. This is a significant milestone in the region where child exploitation is rampant On the 5th of July, the Chairperson ...

A girl show some of mica flakes she has collected whilst working in a open cast illegal mine in Giridih district in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India on January 22. A girl show some of mica ...

"This is the beginning of the end of child labour in mica mines and that has to be maintained now, he added. Notably, in 2004, a research done by ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ had found that over ...

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) declared that the mica mines in Jharkhand are now ‘child labour free’ at a grand celebration in Koderma on Friday. With this ...

At a grand celebration in Koderma today, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) declared that the Mica mines in Jharkhand are now ‘Child Labour Free’. With this ...