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Do not breathe easy on the silicosis prevention policy -Sowmya Sivakumar

-The Hindu

The Government must make haste to prevent a killer disease that claims thousands of workers’ lives each year

Long before COVID-19 hit, countless workers engaged in mines, construction and factories in India were silently dying of exposure to dust, utmost exploitation and apathy. They continue to do so.

Rajasthan’s pioneering model

One State — Rajasthan — with the top-most share of over 17% in value of mineral production in the country and a long history of civil society activism, was the first to notify silicosis as an ‘epidemic’ in 2015, under the Rajasthan Epidemic Diseases Act, 1957. In 2019, it announced a formal Pneumoconiosis Policy, only next to Haryana.

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