{"id":42448,"date":"2019-02-26T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=42448"},"modified":"2019-02-26T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:05:56","slug":"meghalaya-rathole-mine-tragedy-sc-questions-need-to-go-on-with-rescue-work-but-agrees-to-one-last-ditch-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/meghalaya-rathole-mine-tragedy-sc-questions-need-to-go-on-with-rescue-work-but-agrees-to-one-last-ditch-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya rathole mine tragedy: SC questions need to go on with rescue work but agrees to one \u2018last-ditch effort\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghalaya rathole mine tragedy: SC questions need to go on with rescue work but agrees to one \u2018last-ditch effort\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Supreme Court has questioned the need to continue with the rescue operations for trapped miners in a rathole mine in Meghalaya.<\/li>\n
  2. A coal mine in Meghalaya East Jaintia Hills had collapsed which threw light on a dangerous procedure known as \u201crat-hole mining\u201d.<\/li>\n
  3. Rat hole mining\u00a0<\/strong>involves digging of very small tunnels, usually only 3-4 feet high, which workers enter and extract coal. The rat-hole mining is broadly of two types \u2013 (a) side-cutting where narrow tunnels are dug on the hill slopes and workers go inside until they find the coal seam (b)box-cutting type where a rectangular opening is made. Through this, a vertical pit is dug. Once the coal seam is found, rat-hole-sized tunnels are dug horizontally through which workers can extract the coal.<\/li>\n
  4. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned rat-hole mining in 2014, and retained the ban in 2015.The ban was on grounds of the practice being unscientific and unsafe for workers.<\/li>\n
  5. But the orders of the Tribunal has been violated and the State Government has failed to check illegal mining effectively.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Meghalaya rathole mine tragedy: SC questions need to go on with rescue work but agrees to one \u2018last-ditch effort\u2019 The Supreme Court has questioned the need to continue with the rescue operations for trapped miners in a rathole mine in Meghalaya. A coal mine in Meghalaya East Jaintia Hills had collapsed which threw light on… Continue reading Meghalaya rathole mine tragedy: SC questions need to go on with rescue work but agrees to one \u2018last-ditch effort\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704637714},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}