Mar 13 2020 NGT has banned mining in 2014 in Meghalaya. In an official communique state government stated the break-up of the auction from different districts of the State are - East Jaintia Hills - 75000 MT West Khasi Hills - 50000 MT South West Khasi Hills - 25000 MT and South Garo Hills -
Jan 14 2021 Shillong Jan 14 Leader of Opposition in the Meghalaya Assembly and former chief minister Dr Mukul Sangma has written to the Chief Justice Supreme Court of India about continuous illegal coal mining in the State and illegal transportation of illegally mined coal thereof. In his letter dated January 13 2021 sent through the Chief Secretary Meghalaya M.S. Rao and copies of which
Jan 23 2021 I have visited Jaintia Hills and West Khasi Hills and can provide the exact coordinates where illegal mining is taking place. This incident has shamed Meghalaya and it happened despite the NGT ban on unscientific and unsafe coal mining the former chief minister added.
Nov 09 2020 MEGHALAYA. Cong questions govt silence on illegal coal mining charges . questioned the attitude of the state government for not calling an independent probe into the allegations of illegal mining and transportation of coal. . In Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills they dont show. Why should they auction the coal so fast It is because .
West Khasi Hills District West Khasi Hills District is sandwiched between East Khasi Hills and East Garo Hills Districts. It is somewhat a centrally located District of Meghalaya. The District covers an area of about 5247 Sq. Kms and has a population of about 294000. Nongstoin is the District Hqrs while Mairang and Mawkyrwat are the two civil Sub-Divisions of the
Jun 16 2021 Shillong June 16 The mortal remains of one of the five miners trapped in a flooded coal pit in Umpleng under East Jaintia Hills district has been retrieved by Navy divers today.Rescuers have successfully retrieved one of the bodies from the bottom of the vertical shaft of the 152 meter-deep coal mine today afternoon the
Jun 10 2020 For six years coal mining in Meghalaya has been illegal in the sense that it violates an explicit decree. According to the Supreme Court however . One study conducted in the South West Khasi Hills in 2013 estimated that 35000 of 50000 inhabitants in the area during the mining season were migrant laborers from Nepal and Assam.
Jun 15 2021 Discovered by the British in Khasi Hills in the early 19th Century coal mining in Meghalaya took off commercially soon after it attained statehood in the year 1972.
A majority of the people attending the public hearing on uranium mining at Nongbah Jynrin West Khasi Hills on June 12 2007 opposed the mining project. West Khasi Hills Deputy Commissioner Freeman Kharlyngdoh said that around 700 people attended the three-hour-long public hearing conducted by the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board MSPCB.
Aug 15 2020 Help Kindly click on image button to open the attached files e.g. Form1PFRTOR letterForm1 for ECEIAEMP Report Public hearing EC letter Additional informationCompliance ReportMonitoring Report etc.
Meghalaya Bids Goodbye to Rat-hole Mining But Systematic Coal Mining Still Far Away. The state would require at least 18 months to put in place a systematic coal mining regime compatible with the states ground realities said Meghalayas Director of Mineral Resources DMR Arunkumar Kembhavi. Rabindra Nath Sinha. 04 Mar 2020.
Nov 09 2020 MEGHALAYA. Cong questions govt silence on illegal coal mining charges . questioned the attitude of the state government for not calling an independent probe into the allegations of illegal mining and transportation of coal. . In Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills they dont show. Why should they auction the coal so fast It is because .
Sep 26 2020 Shillong When the news emerged of a uranium effluent tank leaking at Nongbah Jynrin in South West Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya it raised concerns whether mining activities were taking place or not.There were other concerns like how hazardous this could be for the people living downstream. The subject on uranium mining in Meghalaya dates back to the early 70s and to
Apr 26 2019 Despite an interim NGT ban on rat-hole coal mining is imposed in the state since April 2014 rampant transportation of illegal coal is still on in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. On December 13 last year at least 15 miners were trapped inside a 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in Lumthari village of East Jaintia Hills .
Besides the latest tragedy has exposed the nexus between coal mafia and government agencies. The rat-hole mining activities are rampant in Nongkseh and Sutnga in East Jaintia hill districts and forest areas of both West Khasi Hills and Garo Hills despite the
Jun 04 2021 Yet again another tragedy struck Meghalaya on 31 May 2021 with five people trapped and feared dead after being stuck in an illegal coal mine in Umpleng East Jaintia Hills. It wouldnt be wrong to say that the home department as well as the minister concerned is not doing their job right.
May 21 2021 With the Ministry of Coal Government of Indias approval of the Coal mining Licence of Shainingstar Khardewsaw Marbiangbor Nongsiej Erantis Sympli and Sajay Laloo in West Khasi Hills and Teilang Pde in Southwest Khasi Hills District the ban on the coal mining has finally come to an end and the scientific coal mining in Meghalaya is .
Trapped Meghalaya Miners Are the Latest Victims of Years of Labour Exploitation. The incident vindicated the stand of activists that illegal coal mining occurs in the East Jaintia Hills.
Non-Coal Mining TEKRING DARENGRE STONE MINE OF MS MEGHNA STONE QUARY Under examination of SEAC. 11 . East Jaintia Hills District Meghalaya by Ms Safari Coke State Meghalaya District . South West Khasi Hills Tehsil
Jan 23 2021 I have visited Jaintia Hills and West Khasi Hills and can provide the exact coordinates where illegal mining is taking place. This incident has shamed Meghalaya and it
May 02 2020 Meghalaya allows mining for domestic purpose barred export . Industrial units in West Khasi Hills Jaintia and Garo Hills to resume their
