Tag: sand miners
Manual Sand Miners Offered Jobs In Maharashtra After Unreported Deaths Expose
Mumbai: Authorities have begun the process of offering alternative work to men risking their lives illegally mining sand, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in July uncovered...
Amid Floating Corpses, Untreated Waste, India’s Sand Miners Risk It All
Mumbai: At dawn on a sultry summer morning, Balaram Raute stood on a boat bobbing in a murky creek outside Mumbai, waiting for the...