Koderma: Koderma police have intensified crackdown against illegal mining and transportation of mica and other precious ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a predawn operation, Koderma forest officials seized three trucks and a JCB machine engaged in illegal mica mining within a protected forest area. Twenty-five personnel participated in the raid ...

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 ...

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 ...

She said NRSC was now completing a five-year plan with concrete steps to tackle child labour and improve living conditions in mica areas so children did not return to mining. In Koderma's Dhab ...

Relief workers try to pull out bodies of illegal miners from the collapsed mica mine in Fulwaria, Koderma, on Friday. Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar At least four illegal miners, on a mission to ...

KODERMA, India, Nov 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After watching her sister-in-law and a friend die in a mica mine in eastern India in March this year, 15-year-old Ritika Murmu vowed she would ...

The NCPCR Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo, during a programme organised by ‘Child Labour free Mica’ in Koderma, He emphasized that all child labourers have been withdrawn from the mica mines and ...

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By Nita Bhalla, Rina Chandran and Anuradha Nagaraj ...