This paper represents one of the first quantitative analyses of health impacts of mining on the local population, an important stakeholder in the policy debate over the …

According to the report prepared by MoEF, the critically polluted areas of India due to coal mining are Korba, Anugul, Talcher, Hazaribagh-Chatra, Singrauli, Chandrapur, Raigarh, and Jharsuguda. 19 The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has developed a Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI). Central Pollution Control Board …

Greenpeace said Jharia's air would have 207 µg/m3 of PM 10 even if air pollution levels were trimmed by 30 percent by 2024. Noxious fumes from the coalfield fires and opencast mining have turned Jharia …

In a 2010 paper, Under-mining health: Environmental justice and mining in India', ... For respiratory illness, this would be through air pollution-related to the mining and the transportation of ores. "Our statistical analysis of villages more exposed (close to mines) compared to villages less exposed (far from mines) confirms these ...

The present paper reviewed the average concentrations of trace elements in soils near coal mine areas from various cities/countries to provide a current global summary of this issue. The contamination of soils was assessed by using global reference materials and various contamination indices. The results show that the average concentrations of …

Here we review chromite mining in India, impact of chromite pollution on plants and the environment, and phytoremediation of Cr-polluted soils. Chromite mining …

Mining and quarrying for minor minerals impart significant economic, environmental and social impacts in and around the affected areas. The problem is severe in the small river catchments as the effective area available for assimilating negative impacts of the activity is minimal, compared to large river basins. To address these issues, an …

Pollution led to more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, according to a new Lancet study. Nearly 1.6 million deaths were due to air pollution alone, and more than 500,000 were ...

2. The many ways mining activities impact biodiversity. Mining affects biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (site, landscape, regional and global) through direct (i.e. mineral extraction) and indirect processes (via industries supporting mining operations, and external stakeholders who gain access to biodiversity-rich areas as the result of …

The pollution mess in the mining-affected areas of Odisha. According to the 2011 Census, about 1.62 million people (50 percent) in the Sundergarh district belong to Scheduled Tribes and many live in rural areas. This area is adjacent to the Chhattisgarh border and known for coal mining and other minerals for decades. ... Read more: India's ...

Mining is a significant economic activity in India. Even on a small scale, it contributes up to 6% to the total cost of mineral extraction. Pollutants and fugitive emissions from the processes involved in mining are suspended in the air and make it unfit for breathing leading to serious respiratory complications.

As India grows and urbanizes, its water bodies are getting toxic. It's estimated that around 70% of surface water in India is unfit for consumption. To set up effective interventions to improve water quality, …

The results of this analysis indicates that there is a clear business case for clean air. Impact of Air Pollution on Indian Economy and Businesses. We found that if India had achieved safe air quality levels in …

With several international reports about impact of air pollution on health correlating with diseases and death in India, the issue has assumed greater prominence. III. Global Burden of Disease' estimates for 2017 that early deaths related to PM2.5 in India are the second highest in the world and ozone related deaths, are the highest in the world.

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A latest government study has found that mining activities in the coal-rich Tamnar area of Chhattisgarh have put the local population, mainly tribal people, at an increased risk of acute respiratory diseases …

India is the world's second largest producer of coal and ranks third in global emissions from coal mining. Emissions are estimated to be 22 MtCO 2 e in 2020 and …

Piles of overburden (waste) dumped near the mine pits of Jhamarkotra. Huddled in the Aravali range in the southern part of Rajasthan about 26 km from Udaipur, is the largest reserve of phosphate in India. Also known as the Jhamarkotra mines, it is the only commercially exploitable rock phosphate deposit in the country.

Air Quality in India Air pollution in South Asia – especially across the Indo-Gangetic basin in Northern India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh – ranks among the most severe in the world. In India alone, hundreds of millions of people are exposed to PM2.5 concentrations an order of magnitude greater than World Health Organization guidelines. However,…

Illnesses attributed by residents and local groups to the radioactive pollution include infertility and birth defects. Jadugoda, Jharkhand, INDIA — The Subarnarekha River roars out of the Chota Nagpur plateau in eastern India, before emptying 245 miles downstream into the Bay of Bengal, making it a vital source of life, and lately, of death ...

This review presents a systematic synthesis of the various methods and measures that have been used to investigate the effects of coal mining in India. A total of 87 peer-reviewed articles were ...

A study reflects that around 418 people died and 438 people got injured in India from December 2020 to March 2022 in sand mining cases. The highest number of deaths have been reported in North India (95), followed by 42 in West and Central India, 41 in East India and 15 in South India. 3.

According to the report prepared by MoEF, the critically polluted areas of India due to coal mining are Korba, Anugul, Talcher, Hazaribagh-Chatra, Singrauli, …

JCF located in Jharkahnd, India (Fig. 1), has a long history of mining which started towards the end of the 19th century [6]. The mining activities intensified in Jharia in 1915 and ... (CPCB) Central Pollution Control Board (India) to assess the quality of air. Any increase in the concentration of pollutants from the NAAQS (National Ambient ...

Mining will "never have zero impact, because you disturb ground to mine [but] we do have much better and safer technologies. And if you spend the money you can do mining with very little impact ...

Mining is a significant part of the transforming economy, which is generally considered as essential as well as social evil at the same time. It is one of the potential contributors to air and water pollution and possesses long-term impact on their quality. Keeping in view the exponential mining activities, we have selected an iron mine area in …

1 Working paper Mining and Jurisprudence: Observationsfor India's mining sector to improve environmental and social performance Introduction Over the past decade, India's mining sector ...

ABSTRACT India suffers from among the worst air pollution in the world. In response, a large government effort to increase air quality monitoring is underway. We present the first comprehensive analysis of government air quality observations from 2015–2019 for PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2 and O3 from the Central Pollution Control …

3. Air pollution: a global health burden. In current decade air pollution is getting worse in many part of world. The ecological–economic shifts during the past few decade have resulted in PM 2.5 disproportionately affecting countries such as China and India.14, 15, 16 According to WHO report 2018, 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe air …

9 Mishra N., Das N. (2017) "Coal Mining and Local Environment: A Study in Coalfield of India" Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of T echnology Rourkela, Odisha ...