The Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) is a global coalition for action – putting policy into practice – comprised of multiple organizations committed to establishing a fair, responsible and sustainable mica supply chain in the states of Jharkhand and Bihar in India that will eliminate unacceptable working conditions and eradicate child labor by 2030.

The mica industry in India has long been of the world's largest in terms of mica production and mica exports. India's mica mining plays an important role in ... India produced a total 19,000 tons of mica in 2016. Jharkhand and Bihar, are the currently the top two mica producing states in India, representing for nearly 25% of the global ...

After watching her sister-in-law and a friend die in a mica mine in eastern India in March this year, 15-year-old Ritika Murmu vowed she would never again pick the mineral and set out to warn others.

Kodarma (largest reserve of mica in the world), Giridih, and Domchanch are the chief collecting centers (located in this belt) where Mica is processed. Apart from this Munger in Bihar also have sufficient mica deposits. The main centres of mica production in this belt are Kodarma, Dhorhakola, Domchanch, Dhab, Gawan, Tisri, Chakai and …

A. Critically review of existing legal framework governing mica –in Bihar and Jharkhand. B. Recommend alternate legal framework which plugs the current issues in the sector while …

THE MICA PROJECT? DID YOU KNOW? As per an NCPCR survey in 2018, nearly 5000 children under 14 years in the Mica belt of Jharkhand and Bihar are reported to be out-of-school Addressing Child Labour in the Mica Belt of Jharkhand in India "A child is meant to learn, not to earn." Jharkhand in India contributes to 25% of the world's Mica supply.

to states beyond Jharkhand and Bihar in India, but also to mica mining outside the country. The outcome was this global scoping study on mica mining and the possible impacts on children's rights, which aims to ... around mica mining in the fifteen largest non-western and five largest western mica-producing countries are investigated. THE ...

In Jharkhand and Bihar, mica is often hand-picked with simple tools in areas where the surface soil is abundant. This work can be done both by men and women, on abandoned mines around their villages. ... In both India and Madagascar, mica mining is done illegally in small-scale, low-tech mines. In any industry, this is a recipe for the ...

High risk for poor working conditions in mica mines and processing units Other key mica producing countries Sources: UN Comtrade, Elevate EiQ, SOMO, various. ... of companies participating in the mica sector in Bihar and Jharkhand to operate under a clear legal framework and associated control systems. RMI's principles • Think holistically

India is the 2nd largest producer of mica and the states of Bihar and Jharkhand are globally renowned for producing some of the highest-quality mica. Bihar and Jharkhand, two of India's poorest states, see rampant child labour in mica mines due to their economic struggles and resource richness.

As many as 5,000 children between the ages of six and 14 have dropped out of school in three mica mining districts of Jharkhand and adjoining state of Bihar to work as scavengers, according to a recent survey by India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).

Mica program manager Maggie de Jongh-Abebe is very excited about this development: "Terre des Hommes Netherlands places particular emphasis on addressing root causes of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. This includes poverty, lack of social services and the illegal nature of mica mining in Jharkhand and Bihar.

As per the report of the Indian Bureau of Mines, 2017, Bihar has about 95% pyrite resources of India. Numerous businesses, including those that produce fertiliser, chemicals, rayon, steel and petroleum, require sulfuric acid. ... It can be located in the pegmatite pores of the Nawada districts and the mica mines of the Akbari Hills in the Gaya ...

Here are some of the key findings of a three-month long investigation in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh into child labor involved in producing mica, the mineral that ...

Surrounded by dense forests, Kundi is one of the mica mining villages in Jharkhand that shares its border with Bihar state. Once upon a... Ensuring Education and Better Life in Amjhar Village of Jharkhand

In the village of Chandwara in Bihar in eastern India, a father's grief laid bare the ugly reality of the illegal mining that accounts for an estimated 70 percent of India's …

Bihar and Jharkhand, two of India's poorest states, see rampant child labour in mica mines due to their economic struggles and resource richness. Financial hardship forces …

The mica mines of the Kodarma area in the Hazaribagh district of Bihar contribute as a single unit the largest quantity of muscovite (locally known as "Ruby mica") to the world. The mica-pegmatites of this area have attracted the attention of geologists and mining engineers since the beginning of the last century, but still many ...

NEW DELHI: Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers ...

Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers to ...

Mining, processing, and uses of Indian mica with special reference to Bihar mica fields. New York: McGraw-Hill. Women in the informal sector: Results of a survey in Ahmedabad

However, in wake of casualties and health hazards associated with illegal mica mining and scavenging, the government is proceeding with regularisation of mica …

In the mud-and-brick village of Chandwara in Bihar in eastern India, a father's grief laid bare the ugly reality of the illegal mining that accounts for an estimated 70 percent of India's mica output.

The Bihar government is preparing to auction mining rights for minerals such as limestone, vanadium-bearing magnetite ilmenite, magnetite and glauconite that have been discovered in various non ...

The survey on 'education & well-being of children in mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar' found that 649 children in the same age group were reported as not attending school in Nawada district of Bihar. The reasons for not attending school included lack of aspiration, lack of interest and also cases of collecting mica scraps, according to ...

Since 12-year-old Laxmi Kumari was buried alive in a mica mine eight months ago, her family's grief has turned to despair on realising promises by global companies to end child labour in the mines ...

for mica mining Legal framework for minor minerals exists in Jharkhand and Bihar.Local industry and state policy makers seem to have opposing views on reviving mica mining through mining leases in Jharkhand. § RMI, reflecting interests of global and local members, should support a long-term sustainable mica mining solution.

Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 years have abandoned education in mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar, and a section of them have started working as labourers to ...

were involved in mica mining in Jharkhand and Bihar. The two states are responsible for 25% of the world's mica production and the prevalence of child labour (SOMO & Terre Des Hommes, 2015). Mica mining, the trade that made the people of Jharkhand prosperous, declined after the 1980s due to the Forest Conservation Act.

The Bihar Mica Act, 1947 Bihar Act 10 of 1948 (a) Governor-Generals assent published in the Bihar Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 4th March, 1948. (b) For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see the Bihar Gazette, 1947, Part 5. No. 468. An Act to regulate the possession and transport of, and trading in mica in the Province of Bihar.