The authors report here the preliminary results of the study using monitored natural attenuation (MNA), referred to as intrinsic remediation, as an in situ treatment method in an abandoned gold mining site in Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka. The area is called the Kolar schist belt of south India, well-known for its gold deposits which have been mined systematically for over several decades.
Following incidents of stomach pain, vomiting and fatigue among students after consuming tablets to prevent malaria, residents in the rural areas around KGF are apprehensive about consuming the pills.
More than 70 students of Higher Primary School in Kammasandra took ill after they swallowed anti-malaria tablets on Tuesday.
The Health Department staff had been distributing anti-malaria tablets in the village as the disease surfaced in the area recently. The tablets were distributed to students of fifth standard to seventh standard on Monday.
The Kolar Gold Fields is already gripped by water scarcity even before the onslaught of summer. Thanks to ineffecient supply of water to the town, the residents are feeling the heat of crisis.
DH News Service,KGF:
The KGF gold mines, which is under the jurisdiction of the central government, should be handed over, like the Hutti mines. In this regard, we will hold a discussion with the chief minister, and a decision will be taken soon, legislator Y Sampangi said here.
Hurdles cropping up one by one are hindering the reopening of Kolar Gold mines.
Few leaders of the Federation of BGML labour unions have identified loopholes in some conditions in the tender procedures and have submitted a writ petition in the court.
From K M Balavenkatesh,KGF: Are the residents of KGF afraid of the Aashada wind? It appears so, for at the onset of the season, traders, farmers, and other residents residents look forward to this season with some amount of dread. Nearly seven years after the closure of the gold mines, the people of this region face a serious problem in the months of July and August - the winds that carry with them cyanide particles, from the piles in the mines.
respiratory ailments, soil and water contamination, thick blanket of dust, withering of cocunut trees and changes in land pattern use are some of the common features of the urban area around
