"Risky But We Need Money," Say Those Working In Meghalaya's Illegal Mines | Read

Even as search and rescue operations continue over a week after 15-odd coal miners were trapped in Ksan area of East Jaintia hills district of Meghalaya as water from multiple channels entered the mine, villagers in lower Assam's Chirang district feel sad and helpless. A lot of them work as migrant labourers in the illegal rat holes coal mines of Meghalaya and say that even after the horrific accident, they will work in the coal mines because they don't have any other option.