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Insecurity, unemployment, illegal mining poll issues

With there being few employment avenues in this border industrial belt of Paonta Sahib, illegal mining has emerged as an employment avenue for hundreds of jobless youth. Officials admit this fact and, according to an estimate, there are hundreds of families which thrive on this illegal trade along the Yamuna bridge in areas like Rampur Ghat and Devi Nagar.