Local miners like Simbo do not pay leases for the land or mining royalties.
VOA: standard.2010.04.22
The Samaj Parivartan Samuday group said the court had rightly cancelled the miningleases of the worst offenders and laid stringent guidelines for the reopening of others.
Yet the Kols found themselves ensnared in a new sort of servitude, woven by contractors with miningleases obtained from the raja (who still claims mining rights to 46 villages).
He says the main reason why India remains under-explored is that miningleases and exploration licenses have not been given for large areas, even when there are indicative gold reserves.