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Back Underground, With Conditions: Why India's Mines Still Ration Women's Entry

A ground report from SCCL's Khairagura opencast project and RK-7 underground mine shows women in blasting, mine rescue and supervisory roles. The company's own figures show how few women have yet reached underground work. The report revives a long-running UPSC theme: whether protective labour laws empower women or exclude them and how this links to India's low female participation in industrial jobs.