K Srinivasan, secretary in the Department of Mines and Geology, said a new policy was in the pipeline to "initiate mica mining legally in Jharkhand" and ensure jobs. "There is nothing here except mica ... all the children in my village go to collect mica," he said. The Thomson Reuters Foundation questioned several RMI brands such as L'Oréal, Merck KGaA, and new 2020 member Porsche about mica mining in Jharkhand and their own financial contributions. In both cases, they did not find the bodies but recorded the deaths based on testimonies of villagers and visits to the mica mines. "The number of people mining mica has increased," said Om Prakash, director at Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, which works with Jharkhand state to end child labour in mines.

Source: bd News24 January 06, 2021 04:52 UTC