Gold Digger!

In my earlier days in Jamshedpur, we were having a wonderful helping hand. She was honest and hardworking woman, a few decades gone by yet she is still intact in my memory as it was. While she used to slog whole day, her husband, he was ‘good for nothing’. He was drinking heavily and doing nothing except occasionally selling coals in baskets. I had no idea from where he managed those stuff. Those days people used to cook in handmade oven and coal used as main source of energy for cooking. His price was lower than the market price, It took many years for me to understand how it was possible. But it was always happened with our natural resources. Illegal mining always exists with the help of political patronage. It is considered to be a free for all commodities, peoples work in of those sectors like Coal India and others are minting money.

Welcome to the world of different sort of corruption in India. Iron ore was illegally exported to china through ports of southern India and payment is made through more than 4000 banks account. Damage to environment can not be calculated. Politicians in several states are accused of enriching themselves or their friends. The list will be endless, here are the states rich with different type of ores and minerals. We had enough on the air, and on the ground,  now it is time for some underground activity.

Karnataka

The illegal iron ore mining and export scam in Karnataka is estimated to be to the tune of Rs 60,000 crore. Referring to the disappearance of five lakh tonnes of iron ore seized at Belekeri port, as well as the one in Karwar suggested around 35 lakh tonnes of illegal mining and exports between November and February.

Obulapuram Mining Company owned by G. Karunakara Reddy and G. Janardhana Reddy who are ministers in the Government of Karnataka,  alleged to have been legally mined after paying a minuscule royalty to the government. This ore exported to China and due to Chinese demand for iron ore is the cause behind the rising global iron-ore prices.

Finally Janardhana Reddy arrested on 6^th  september, 2011. It is to be seen if any way the Government could recover any money that lost. You cannot belive, these Reddy brothers donated forty one crore of public money to Tirupati Temple. Getting back this money to Government coffer, don’t dream it.

Jharkhand

A former chief minister of the state of Jharkhand, who is charged with extorting huge bribes in exchange for granting mining leases. More than 7000 hundred tonnes of coal is mined illegally across mineral rich Jharkhand every year.

There are some small time illegal miners too, lack of livelihood opportunities is forcing hundreds of poor Indians take up illegal mining in Jharkhand. Dozens of villages across Deogarh and Giridih districts, people engaged in illegal mining are poor village.

It is said, that Maoist too very active in tribal districts of Jharkhand - stepping into mining sector, imposing taxes on miners and also recruiting cadres from the poor families.

Rajasthan

Rajasthan tops the list of states where illegal mining takes place. Makrana, famous for its white marbles, has been going on flouting laws in the process of extraction of the precious stone. 

Orissa

Rich with its Quartz & Graphite, also in hotspot for illeagal mining. India's former environment minister Jairam Ramesh rejected the proposal by British-based resource giant Vedanta, to build an open-cast bauxite mine in the Niyamgiri Hill range in the state of Orissa..

Other states

Illegal mining in the Geer forest area in Junagadh district and illegal mining of  The Aravalli hills Range are the few others to be mentioned.

State wise  Fact File  (From Govt. Standing committee report)

Name of the State	Number of Mines	Important Minerals
Madhya Pradesh	128	Limestone & Bauxite
Uttar Pradesh	05	Silica Sand
Andhra Pradesh	308	Limestone, Quartz, Mica, Barite & China Clay
Karnataka	65	Limestone,      China      Clay, Moulding Sand & Quartz
Maharashtra	47	Silica Sand & Iron Ore
Bihar	54	Mica
Jharkhand	176	Mica, Fire Clay, Limestone, Iron Ore & China Clay
Chhattisgarh	10	Limestone
Meghalaya	04	Limestone
Assam	12	Limestone
Manipur	02	Chromite
Sikkim	01	Copper
Orissa	68	Quartz & Graphite
Rajasthan	251	Steatite, Silica Sand, Feldspar & Asbestos
Gujarat	391	Bauxite, Chalk, Limestone, Fire Clay, Silica Sand & White Clay

!!!On Air, on earth or underground, Corruption in India has no barrier.!!!