Jaisinghpur, Sulaha, Baijnath and Palampur face significant environmental degradation due to rampant illegal mining along a 100-km stretch of the Neugal, Mol, Awa and Binwa rivers, tributaries of the Beas. Mining operations have led to the destruction of the green cover as forest land is misused to access riverbeds. The mining mafia has illegally axed […]