11th Oct 2011
Mining is the most accommodating job in the Bellary district from the past decade. Most of the people left farming and joined mining camps which helped them to earn huge amount of money. Mining Mafia emanated decades back and influenced local mob to join with them and paid incredible wages for them. District had innumerable migrants from neighboring states and thousands of people are employed to work at mining camps. The Reddy brothers and other chot mota owners mined huge deposits of iron for their buyers in China. China Boom for IRON requirement rocked mining industry in Bellary-Hospet-Sandur(BHS) region and corers of money flowed in as the demand raised. All this inflow came to an end when supreme court banned mining in BHS region considering the environmental issues. Mining was totally stopped when G.J.Reddy was put behind bars.
Now everybody in the mineral-rich-district, be it a farmer, truck driver, steel mill worker, school teacher, doctor, bureaucrat, politician, small shop owner, hotelier, private transporters in one way or other are being effected by the imposed ban on the mining in BHS region. The ban on mining affected the transporters the worst, A truck driver who owned a single truck easily made Rs30,000 a month but they are job less now. Some of them who bought trucks through bank loans are unable to pay back them. Nearly thousand odd trucks are lying idle after the ban imposed in the region . Farmers also got inspired by the mining and started surface mining in their fields and collected some iron and sold it to the truck drivers and made huge amounts of money but now they don't get even a single penny and more over they ruined the farms and it takes more than 100 years to repair the damage done due to surface mining in the farm lands.
Most of them migrants left the region after the ban and local mob who owned land re-started farming and land less people are at cross roads and they are still with a strong hope that mining will resume shortly. Many hotels have been established in the region and they are experiencing 70% downfall in the business and most of them remained closed. Even seven seat auto drivers used to earn around 1000 bucks a day but now they are unable to feed their families. Thousands of people lost their lively hood and most of the youth are idle since they are illiterates and this sudden downfall made them dumb. Ban on mining will make barren hills to turn into green again but not all are happy. Most of them want the mining to be resumed under the strict control of the central boards but environmentalists are strictly opposing this.
The state govt must take an immediate action for the uplifting the devastated people in the BHS region and the immediate source of funds for this program should be the mine owners like Gali Janardhana Reddy who made infinite illegal profits from the mining. This case is obvious instance to prove what ever happens in the nation the ultimate refugee is the "Common Man"
Power Capsule : "Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."
Mining is the most accommodating job in the Bellary district from the past decade. Most of the people left farming and joined mining camps which helped them to earn huge amount of money. Mining Mafia emanated decades back and influenced local mob to join with them and paid incredible wages for them. District had innumerable migrants from neighboring states and thousands of people are employed to work at mining camps. The Reddy brothers and other chot mota owners mined huge deposits of iron for their buyers in China. China Boom for IRON requirement rocked mining industry in Bellary-Hospet-Sandur(BHS) region and corers of money flowed in as the demand raised. All this inflow came to an end when supreme court banned mining in BHS region considering the environmental issues. Mining was totally stopped when G.J.Reddy was put behind bars.
Now everybody in the mineral-rich-district, be it a farmer, truck driver, steel mill worker, school teacher, doctor, bureaucrat, politician, small shop owner, hotelier, private transporters in one way or other are being effected by the imposed ban on the mining in BHS region. The ban on mining affected the transporters the worst, A truck driver who owned a single truck easily made Rs30,000 a month but they are job less now. Some of them who bought trucks through bank loans are unable to pay back them. Nearly thousand odd trucks are lying idle after the ban imposed in the region . Farmers also got inspired by the mining and started surface mining in their fields and collected some iron and sold it to the truck drivers and made huge amounts of money but now they don't get even a single penny and more over they ruined the farms and it takes more than 100 years to repair the damage done due to surface mining in the farm lands. 
The state govt must take an immediate action for the uplifting the devastated people in the BHS region and the immediate source of funds for this program should be the mine owners like Gali Janardhana Reddy who made infinite illegal profits from the mining. This case is obvious instance to prove what ever happens in the nation the ultimate refugee is the "Common Man"Power Capsule : "Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."
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