As per the Ministry of Coal’s website, there is a problem of subsidence in the Jharia coalfields, which has been blamed on ‘unscientific mining carried out by the erstwhile mine owners over more than 200 years of operations prior to nationalisation’.
The Orders have been given to close educational work in schools and colleges for only one day, an official said. Earlier, several villages along the Narmada River were put on alert in the districts of Narmada, Bharuch, and Vadodara due to the increased water levels in the river.