Mine games
New Delhi, November 15
The extent of degradation in and around mines is the evidence of total failure of the state administration to enforce basic rules for ecological safeguards. Recent attempts at planting trees are cosmetic. Exposed groundwater lakes observed in mining sites only reconfirm the worst fears. If mining could not be stopped in so many pits even after reaching groundwater level there is no guarantee that
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