Small Scale Mining in Cluster:Pachami-Hatgacha Stone Project

Abstract

It is a success story of a unique experiment on small scale cluster stone mining activities in West Bengal, India. Here the vision of the planner, unstinted support of the Government, geological concept and rigorous field work of a young geologist, dedication of the entrepreneurs, cooperation of the locals, all vibrated in the same tune and resonated to transform the stony wasteland into a throbbing centre of stone production within a span of only two and half a decade.