{"id":222481,"date":"2019-01-30T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=222481"},"modified":"2019-01-30T06:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:16:39","slug":"meghalayas-mining-quandary-no-rat-hole-mine-is-environmentally-sound-and-safe-ban-it-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/meghalayas-mining-quandary-no-rat-hole-mine-is-environmentally-sound-and-safe-ban-it-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya\u2019s mining quandary: No rat-hole mine is environmentally sound and safe, ban it forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has seen a rat-hole coal mine up-close would have known that the chances of survival of the 15 miners trapped in a mine at Ksan in Meghalaya\u2019s East Jaintia Hills was slim once the mine was flooded. I have been inside one of these mines and can tell you that it is beyond imagination how anyone can enter such a small space and mine coal with bare hands and rudimentary tools. In 2011, I, along with my colleagues at the Centre <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has seen a rat-hole coal mine up-close would have known that the chances of survival of the 15 miners trapped in a mine at Ksan in Meghalaya\u2019s East Jaintia Hills was slim once the mine was flooded. I have been inside one of these mines and can tell you that it is beyond imagination how anyone can enter such a small space and mine coal with bare hands and rudimentary tools. In 2011, I, along with my colleagues at the Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}