India at 70: Land of Million Mutinies

Jan 5, 2011 - , India - A teenage miner burrows through a tunnel 300 feet below the surface of the earth in the Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, North East India, 2011. Miners lower to great depths in the ground often on slippery and shaky wooden ladders. Children and adults squeeze into rat hole like tunnels for thousands of privately owned and unregulated mines for as little as Û6 a day. They extract coal leer más without the use of any equipment using just their hands or primitive tools. The coal is then transported to neighbouring Bangladesh and Assam before being distributed all over India and used mostly for power generation. It is also used as a source of fuel in cement plants. Many workers depart neighbouring states and countries - such as Bangladesh and Nepal - hoping to escape poverty and improve quality of life. Some send money back home to their loved ones.The 2011 national census of India found the total number of child labour, aged 5-14, to be at 4.35 millionMeghalaya, India
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