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applicable under the Meghalaya Transfer of Land (Regulation) Act, 1971. c) The applicant shall ensure delineation of coal blocks with welldefined 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 ...
NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) will finally pronounce its orders today on transportation of the extracted coal as well as reopening of coal mining in the state of Meghalaya after three days of hearing and deliberation on the matter. "The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has heard all parties on the ban and after three days will provide its set of new orders to be carried out ...
Dec 28, 2018· The National Green Tribunal has banned unsafe coal mining in Meghalaya since 2014 based on a petition by an NGO, which had alleged that a river in Assam had become acidic due to unregulated mining ...
Jan 11, 2019· As efforts are under way to reach 15 miners trapped in an illegal coal pit in Meghalaya since December 13, the tragedy puts the spotlight on the dark underbelly of coal mining in the State ...
Dec 24, 2019· Coal miners in the mineralrich northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya have something to celebrate. Over the summer, the Supreme Court of India passed an order to reopen mining .
Aug 18, 2020· Since 1980, when the Forest Conservation Act was enacted, India has diverted million hectares of forestland for mining – the bulk of it for coal. 49 coal mining .
A senior advocate of the Supreme Court named Colin Gonsalves on Friday argued before the apex court that all illegally mined coal in Meghalaya should be handed over to Coal India Limited at its depot in Guwati.. During a hearing on a petition to lift the ban on coal mining in Meghalaya, Gonsalves referred to the Kropha Committee report on the availability of coal in the state after the coal ...
The Supreme Court will conduct a final hearing on issues related to coal mining in Meghalaya on December 4. It deferred its order regarding pleas for allowing transportation of extracted and assessed coal. There are at least five petitions before a bench of the apex court on the coalmining issue.
In 2014 when mining was banned in Meghalaya, coal production stood at about 6 million tonnes annually. For the stipulated 9 metric tonnes of coal transported by every truck, the state was earning ...
Jul 28, 2020· The National Green Tribunal Tuesday said it cannot approve the recommendation of a committee that Meghalaya coal owners, who are yet to be identified by draw of lots, may transport the coal, saying it was against the verdict of the Supreme Court. The committee headed by former Gauhati high court judge, Justice B D Agarwal, recommended that the Mining and Geology Department shall allow the coal ...
Jan 03, 2019· Abdul first started working in coal mines about two years ago. Before that, he worked as a mason and earned a daily wage of 400 rupees (6; £). ... Most of Meghalaya''s illegal miners are ...
GUWATI: With Supreme Court revoking National Green Tribunal ban on coal mining last month, Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K. Sangma said the order goes way beyond coal industry or it goes beyond the mineral rights that we might have. Sangma, Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong, Tourism Minister Metb Lyngdoh and MLAs from West Khasi Hills were felicitated by Ka Hima .
Aug 17, 2015· Noting that such activity has created an "alarming situation" in Meghalaya, the bench chaired by Justice P Jyothimani on April 17 this year directed the chief secretary of Meghalaya and the state director general of police to ensure that rathole mining/illegal mining and illegal transport of the illegally mined coal is stopped forthwith ...
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.
Thousands of active and abandoned rathole mines have for years been used by murderers to dump the body of their victims. Many across Meghalaya''s coal belts have accidentally fallen to their ...
Jan 07, 2019· East Jaintia Hills/Shillong, Meghalaya: It''s an open the imposition of a blanket ban on unscientific methods of coal mining in Meghalaya in 2014, illegal rathole mining continues to take place in the state and right under the nose of .
Dec 26, 2018· Attempts to rescue at least 15 miners trapped since December 13 in a flooded "rathole" mine in Meghalaya have been stopped because of the lack of .
Jul 20, 2019· Meghalaya CM Congrad Sangma Meets Coal India Officials to Strategise Auction of 32 lakh tonnes of Stock. The Supreme Court, while lifting the ban on coal mining imposed by the NGT, had directed the handing over of all extracted coal as assessed by the state to CIL for proper disposal.
Jul 03, 2019· SHILLONG: In a Landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for operationalizing coal mines in the State of Meghalaya under the relevant statutory framework of the MMDR Act, 1957. The present State government in Meghalaya for the first time since the imposition of the mining ban imposed by the NGT in 2014, preferred two ...
Kolkata: Meghalaya, where coal mining started in 1894, conducted an orientation and sensitisation programme (OSP) for mine owners in the last week of February. This followed the Supreme Court''s order dated July 3, 2019, to facilitate systematic, safe, scientific and planned utilisation of Meghalaya.
Jul 28, 2020· 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. The committee was constituted during the hearing of the petition which had sought a ban on coal mining in Meghalaya.
Dec 17, 2018· In 2014, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had banned rathole coal mining. (Source: Meghalaya Police) Even as 13 miners trapped by the flooding of an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya are presumed dead, the Union Coal Ministry has before it a formal proposal sent by the Meghalaya government seeking a way around a mining ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal .
Aug 14, 2020· Meghalaya is blessed with coal, limestone, uranium etc. These need to be used judiciously; not exploited. So far the people of Meghalaya have been able to resist mining of uranium, because the EIA process has always been truncated by pressure groups. Hence uranium mining in Meghalaya has remained at the experimental stage only, although there ...
Jul 16, 2019· Shillong: The Supreme Court judgment on July 3, 2019, by Justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph, on Meghalaya rathole 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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