The Mine Labour Protection Campaign (or MLPC) was established in 1994, following deliberations through a series of workshops, seminars and activities in Jodhpur attended by environmentalists, lawyers and policy advocates on the mining situation in Rajasthan. These meetings demonstrated the need for the voices of mine workers to be heard as well as the necessity for a campaign to protect the rights of mine and quarry workers. The campaign was initially guided by a steering committee of experts from various areas of civil society including Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, as its patron.
In 1999, after 6 years of operation in the state, an independent review of the campaign strongly recommended the need for an independent secretariat for MLPC to provide the campaign an autonomous entity and to enable the extensive participation of mineworkers.
On June 7, 2007, MLPC was registered as a not for profit organisation under the Rajasthan Public Trust Act of 1959 at Jodhpur. The organisation was reorganised as the MLPC Trust with the new and targeted slogan:
“Regulating mining, empowering workers, developing cooperatives, and sustaining the environment.”
Since then, MLPC has been working to improve the mining industry in Rajasthan by working with the government, the Human Rights Commission, other NGOs in the sector and the mineworkers themselves.
The board of MLPC Trust has 5 trustees and 9 executive members representing local not for profit organisations, environmental agencies, minority groups, Dalit rights struggle groups, the labour movement, mine workers unions, cooperatives and community Self Help Groups.
Vision and Mission
Vision:
Our mission:
We seek to promote responsible mining with a focus on the economic, social and legal empowerment of mine workers.
