VISITE DES MINES DE CHARBON EN FEU!
La nuit du 8 fevrier, nous avons visite une mine de charbon, guide par Rotarien Sanjay. Plusieurs des mines a ciel ouvert sont en flamme. La region et meme la ville de Dhanbad, est recouverte de poussiere de charbon. Impossible de voir les etoiles dans le ciel. La mine que nous avons visite, qui etait semble-t-il petite de taille, produit 25000 tonnes de charbon chaque jour au Gouvernement! La region compte plusieurs centaines de mine similaire. On dit souvent que le Bihar est l'etat le plus riche de l'Inde ou reside les gens les plus pauvre du pays.Rotarian Sanjay took us to visit a nearby coal mine at night. A large area of the mine was aflame and on fire. Extraction of coal is done from top by digging. The whole area is dusty with coal dust; that explains the dust all over Dhanbad and its surroundings and never one could see a clear sky; the stars at night, forget it. That, supposedly a small mine, supplies 25 000 tons of coal every day to the Government…..and there are hundreds of mines in the region. It used to be said that the state of Bihar is the richest in India with the poorest people; the mines have been nationalized since 1992.
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