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BALANCING BETWEEN GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENT A Fair Mining Policy is an Act of Justice                                                                                                                       ...

THE GLOBAL MINING INDUSTRY Between Guidelines, Initiatives and Implementation  PDF Rajat Ahlawat ★ Extraction of the Earth's resources has been the mainstay of development since the pre-historic times. Mining is, and will always be, a core necessity of the mounting needs of the modern times, right from micro-chips to medicines and from roads to rockets. Over the last couple of decades, the mining industry has seen heightened awareness and interest of the world in the...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MINING   PDF Gaurav Jain ★ What is Mining? Any operation undertaken for the purpose of winning any mineral1 is mining. It incorporates activities like pitting, digging and quarrying among others undertaken to gainfully extract a mineral from the Earth’s crust. But mining in India is not a simple ‘dig and sell’ proposition. It is, in fact, a highly complex socio-economic and environmental challenge: at stake are natural resources, people, forests, w...

PETITION ON ILLEGAL MINING IN ODISHA: Overview and Implications   PDF Swapna Jha ★ In the context of a public outcry over massive mining scandals in various parts of the country, the Government of India in November 2010 set up the Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry for illegal mining of iron ore and manganese. It was asked to inquire into illegal mining, trade and transportation of iron and manganese ores and identify the deficiencies in the systems of management and regu...

MANIFESTO FOR A NEW MINING PARADIGM: Goa Shows the Way to Intergenerational Equity   PDF Rahul Basu ★ The recent Goa legislative assembly elections provided an opportunity to the Goenchi Mati Movement1 (“Goan earth”) to step up its campaign against the way mining was practiced. The essential principle underlying the movement is that minerals are a shared inheritance, and it is the duty of the present generation to ensure that future generations inherit either the mineral...

PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE TRIBALS Undoing the Wrongs PDF Shambhu Ghatak ★ Development, wrote, Jawaharlal Nehru, should be undertaken within the broad framework of five fundamental principles: respecting tribal rights, providing encouragement to traditional arts and culture, avoid introducing too many outsiders into tribal territory, desist from over-administering these areas and judging results not by statistics or money spent but by the quality and evolvement of human character....

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SAMATA JUDGMENT A Weapon of the Weak and the Marginalised   PDF Ravi Rebbapragada ★ "Poverty in the land of plenty", wrote Minoo Masani way back in 1953 in his book Our India. Masani rightly recognises the paradox of our nation -- the land with abundant natural resources has been the home for the poor and the most deprived. The tribal areas in particular have been victims of this paradox despite the fact that the Constitution laid down various provision...

COMMON CAUSE CASE UPDATES   PDF Introduction of Electoral Bonds Challenged: Common Cause and the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have challenged the introduction of Electoral Bonds, as part of the Finance Act 2017, which have made electoral funding of political parties more opaque legitimizing high-level corruption to an unprecedented scale. The PIL filed in the Supreme Court points out that the bonds make the electoral funding unlimited for big corporates and open the doors fo...

JHARIA: A TOWN ON FIRE A Microcosm of Neglect and Greed   PDF Shakeb Ayaz ★ Jharia, a small, bustling and mineral-rich urban town in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand is gradually sinking. It has one of India's largest and high quality coking coal reserves. The fire, burning in its belly for over a century refuses to be quenched and the day may not be far when a major disaster will wipe the town of the maps. Fire rages in nearly 70 mining1 areas in the coalfields, which roug...