Northeast Diary: Is Meghalaya trying to legalise rat-hole coal mining
With Meghalaya assembly elections just a few months away, the issue of coal mining is back in the limelight. Rajya Sabha member from the state, WR Kharlukhi, is now demanding that rat-hole mining ...
What is the Meghalaya plateau mostly made of?
Coal mining in Meghalaya has been a controversial issue, with a ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal in 2014. However, the Supreme Court lifted the ban in 2019. What is unique thing about Meghalaya? Meghalaya is unique for its archean rock formations, coal, limestone deposits, high mountains, valleys, lakes, and waterfalls.
Meghalaya: Migrant Worker From Assam Dies In Coal Mine
Updated on : 15 Jun 2023, 4:07 pm. A migrant worker from Assam died while working at a coal mine in neighbouring state Meghalaya, reports emerged on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Aamil Uddin, a resident of Karimganj in Assam. The incident reportedly took place on Wednesday in which he was killed. The details on the matter are still ...
Meghalaya mine collapse: Beyond the tragedy, for state's …
Pala defended his demand to revoke the ban saying, "I stand for regulation of coal mining in Meghalaya. It should be regulated in such a way that the environment and ecology is preserved and people also get a chance to mine coal, like they have in the past 50-60 years." His declared assets, according to affidavits, was over Rs 49 crore in 2014.
Meghalaya's black holes: Unregulated rat-hole coal …
Meghalaya has estimated coal reserves of 559 million tonnes (MT), spread over an area that is slightly larger than the size of …
Meghalaya: CM says NGT ban on illegal coal mining 'sudden'
Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma. Shillong: Even as the High Court continues to slam the government's failure to act on rampant illegal coal mining activities in the state, Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma hinted that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban was too sudden. Sangma made the comment when interacting with the media after ...
Over Forty Years of Coal Mining in Meghalaya
The coal story in Meghalaya is a horrifying blend of bad governance, poorly crafted laws and a desperately surplus labour Market. The paper will finally explore how mainstream politics, aided by the media has failed to do justice to these desperate miners in the North-eastern Hill state of Meghalaya.
Impact of Coal Mining on Water Resources and …
A study was conducted to analyse the toxic affect of acid mine drainage (AMD) of coal mines on the histology of kidney and liver of Tor tor collected from Simsang River, Garohills; Meghalaya.
Meghalaya coal mines
The Meghalaya "rat-hole" coal mines are a 5 million ton-per-annum (MTPA) network of previously unregulated hand-mined box mines in the Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya state, …
Coal mining to resume in Meghalaya after 9 years: CM
The National Green Tribunal had in April 2014 imposed a blanket ban on coal mining and transportation of coal in Meghalaya causing a massive blow to the revenue of the state. As a result, the mining industry suffered a negative growth of (-) 59.36 per cent and the GSDP registered a negative growth of (-) 2.82 per cent, according to the chief ...
(PDF) 'RAT-HOLE' MINING AND THE 'NGT' BAN: AN
The 'Rat-hole' mining in Meghalaya with its distinct character and the imposition of 'NGT' ban since early 2014, is giving rise to an altogether different dynamics to mining scenario and ...
Meghalaya's black holes: Unregulated rat-hole coal mines ravage …
Meghalaya has estimated coal reserves of 559 million tonnes (MT), spread over an area that is slightly larger than the size of the city of Kolkata. Wildlife and environment protection groups have alleged coal mining goes on under the state government's radar. The NGT coal ban fuelled Meghalaya's election campaign in early …
Meghalaya HC wants use of CAPF to stop illegal mining of coal
CONTINUE READING BELOW "The measures adopted by the state (to stop illegal mining and transportation of coal) have fallen woefully short, it is necessary to call in the Central Armed Police Forces to monitor and stop the illegal activities pertaining to coal mining that continues in the state," a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjib …
What is the importance of Meghalaya plateau?
The Meghalaya plateau is a pear-shaped region, covering about 35,291 km2, located on the northeastern flank of Peninsular India. It is traditionally divided into Garo, Khasi, and Jaintia Hills regions and is known for its karst phenomena. The plateau is rich in mineral resources such as coal, iron ore, sillimanite, and limestone.
In Pictures | Crumbling hills of Meghalaya
In pictures: Meghalaya, blessed by nature's bounty, has been at the receiving end of greed for the resources that lie beneath its land, with uncontrolled coal mining and illegal limestone mining
Impact of Coal Mining on Water Resources and Environment in Meghalaya
The paper appreciates coal mining laws and policies applied by National Green Tribunal to ban traditional, artisanal and rat-hole coal mining in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya (a state in India) in an ...
Unbridled illegal coal mining in Meghalaya despite court ban
Coal Mining Land Conflict Summary Despite a ban on rat-hole mining of coal in Meghalaya by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2014, illegal coal continues to be …
MEGHALAYA COAL
NGT approved auction of 2 lakh mt of coal output in Meghalaya. Last year Supreme Court had paved the way for operationalising of coal mining in Meghalaya under the relevant statutory framework of the Mine and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act. NGT has banned mining in 2014 in Meghalaya. 13 Mar, 2020, 12:49 PM IST.
5 trapped after explosion in Meghalaya mine
The initiative is likely to start on May 15. (Representational) Five workers, four from Assam and one from Tripura, went missing after an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills (EJH) district got flooded following a dynamite explosion on Sunday evening, police said. Jagpal Singh Dhanoa, SP of EJH district, said, "The main ...
Meghalaya: Police exhume body of suspected coal miner in EJH
Guwahati: East Jaintia Hills police in Meghalaya exhumed the body of Riew Siangshai, who is suspected to have died while illegally mining coal in Moolang village. The family had buried the body without a postmortem, but authorities are now seeking to determine the cause of death and whether Siangshai was indeed mining coal.
MINING MEGHALAYA
Meghalaya has prepared a "blueprint" for the deployment of 160 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to check the illegal mining and transportation of coal. The High Court of Meghalaya stated that it appears to be fair and reasonable to this Court to deploy 10 companies, not of CRPF but of Central Industrial Security Force.
No coal production in M'laya in four years: Union minister
SHILLONG, Aug 1: Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi was once again found giving a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on coal mining in Meghalaya which was far from the truth. In a written reply in the Upper House on Monday, the minister asserted that no coal production has been reported in Meghalaya …
Meghalaya enters 2023 without resolving multiple issues
Inter-State border violence and dispute with neighbouring Assam, ethnic troubles, illegal coal mining are some of the major issues that dominated 2022 in Meghalaya. ... Meghalaya, along with Nagaland and Tripura, are slated to go for polls in February and the inter-State border issue, illegal mining, unemployment, alleged scams …
Unveiling nature's treasures: actinobacteria from Meghalaya's …
Sample collection. Spoil soil samples were collected in July, 2014 from a coal mining site at Dewlieh, near Maweit, West Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya (N 25 o …
Unbridled illegal coal mining in Meghalaya despite court ban
Despite a ban on rat-hole mining of coal in Meghalaya by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2014, illegal coal continues to be extracted and moved across borders of Meghalaya. Illegal coal mining has not only been a nemesis to the environment but also a threat to human lives. LCW analysis of news reports shows that nearly 60 people either …
Rat-hole coal mining: HC asks Meghalaya to implement SC, NGT …
One of the SC directions was allowing the sale of coal, which had already been extracted from mines, prior to a prohibition on rat-hole mining of coal in Meghalaya by NGT in 2014.
Meghalaya: Scientific coal mining to begin in state …
NPP chief W R Kharlukhi further stated that the party is making every effort to begin scientific mining of the mineral after the Supreme Court lifted the ban in July 2019. "In 2014, the National Green …
Another year, another mining tragedy — why …
Two years after 15 miners were killed at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, six others lost their lives in another accident at another mine in January. Shillong: A lot of questions remain unanswered about what …
Meghalaya HC directs CS, DGP to file affidavits to control illegal coal
Shillong: The Meghalaya High Court has directed the chief secretary and the Director General of Police to file additional affidavits indicating measures taken by the authorities to stop illegal mining and transportation of coal in the state.. A bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee while hearing a PIL on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction on …
Where coal is mined via 'rat-holes'
The coal seam in hills of Meghalaya is very thin, less than 2 m in most cases," he said. In the other type of rat-hole mining, called box-cutting, a rectangular opening is made, varying from 10 to 100 sq m, and …