Too Scared to Talk on Camera: How Meghalaya's Coal Mafia Strikes Terror #LokSabhaElections2019
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The Sadak Se Sansad team visited Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district to highlight the travails of the poor residents whose land has been forcibly taken by the powerful coal mafia for rat-hole mining, in spite of a ban on the activity by the NGT and the Supreme Court. Mining has not only taken away their traditional means of livelihood, agriculture but has also contaminated their sources of drinking water. While the rich buy water, the poor walk many kilometres every day to look for clean water to drink and wash clothes with.
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The Sadak Se Sansad team visited Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district to highlight the travails of the poor residents whose land has been forcibly taken by the powerful coal mafia for rat-hole mining, in spite of a ban on the activity by the NGT and the Supreme Court. Mining has not only taken away their traditional means of livelihood, agriculture but has also contaminated their sources of drinking water. While the rich buy water, the poor walk many kilometres every day to look for clean water to drink and wash clothes with.
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#LokSabhaElections2019 #Meghalaya #Mining #Shillong #NorthEastIndia #TheWire #GroundReport #SadakSeSansad