By Bijoy A Sangma Meghalaya’s vast coal reserves have long been both an economic lifeline and an environmental catastrophe. For decades, the state depended on rat-hole mining, a hazardous and unregulated practice where miners – some barely in their teens – squeezed through narrow, suffocating tunnels to extract coal. These tunnels, often no more than […]

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