Overview

• Daniel Langthasa and the Sixth Schedule Protection Committee have urged the state government to publish Justice Anima Hazarika’s commission findings, six months after nine miners drowned in Umrangso.
• The judicial enquiry, mandated to report by mid-April, remains unpublished, fueling frustrations over the lack of transparency.
• A post-tragedy survey identified at least 220 illegal rat-hole mines operating in the Umrangso area despite a 2014 National Green Tribunal ban.
• Only one individual, Punish Nunisa, has been arrested in connection with the January accident, leaving activists to call for broader accountability.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s pledge to shut down all illegal rat-hole mines has yet to yield any significant closures or enforcement action.