Divers from the Special Forces who retrieved the assemblage told The Indian Express that the archetypal situation was the extent of the h2o – astir 100 feet – wrong the 310-feet heavy cardinal pit of the mine, and the implicit deficiency of visibility. (Express Photo)
The Gauhati High Court Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of the mining calamity successful Umrangso, successful which astatine slightest 9 miners died earlier this month, and issued notices to the authorities authorities seeking its effect connected the efforts taken to halt amerciable rat-hole mining successful Assam.
The respondents see the Chief Secretary and officials from the state’s Mine and Minerals Department, Environment and Forest Department, Home and Political Department, Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Directorate of Geology and Mining, and the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council.
The High Court besides expressed its interest implicit rat-hole mining successful Karbi Anglong. The tribunal directed the respondents to record their effect and a latest study connected the enactment taken to halt rat-hole ember mining by February 7.
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