Shillong: The Supreme Court judgment on July 3, 2019, by Justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph, on Meghalaya rat-hole coal mining is an unparalleled indictment of the claim of the tribes of Meghalaya - as represented by the Autonomous District Councils (ADC) - that they have unrestrained rights to exploit their lands, including for mining coal.
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A Correspondent. SHILLONG: The Supreme Court on Wednesday has allowed coal mining operations in Meghalaya, on the privately and community owned land subject to the permissions from the concerned authorities. The Supreme Court said, "We clarify that in event mining operations are undertaken in privately owned/community owned land in …
And, in 2021, six workers died after falling into a tunnel. The illegal coal mining in the state of Meghalaya was also pointed out by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in a report released in 2018. The audit also claimed that the mining department lacked a method for cross-verifying and resolving the mining numbers.
Centre has approved four mining leases and this will now allow the process of 'scientific mining' or 'legal mining' of coal in the state, said Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on May 2. A meeting was held in the secretariat between Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDI) and the Department of Forest and Mining ...
Nostoc muscorum was isolated from a coal mining pit in Chiehruphi, Meghalaya, India, and its potential to remove Zn(II) and Cu(II) from media and the various biochemical alterations it undergoes during metal stress were studied. Metal uptake measured as a function of the ions removed by N. muscorum from media supplemented independently with 20 ...
Shillong: Amidst two-week extension of the nationwide lockdown, the Meghalaya government has decided to allow mining activities to resume from May 4 for domestic purpose and barred the export outside the country, officials said on Saturday. An official of Meghalaya's Commerce and Industries Department said the state government …
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applicable under the Meghalaya Transfer of Land (Regulation) Act, 1971. c) The applicant shall ensure delineation of coal blocks with well-defined boundaries tbr planning the scientific mining. d) The size of the coal mine block should be considerably large enough to undertake economically viable, environmental friendly, safe coal mining ...