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Get Latest PriceThe estimated coal deposits of 560 million tonnes in Meghalaya are found along the southern fringe of the Shillong plateau extending over a length of 400 km. These deposits are spread over 20 major
Get Price2021-3-10 · Meghalaya is all set to soon start scientific mining of coal after the Centre has approved the state government’s standard operating procedure (SOP) for granting prospecting license and mining
Get Price2014-8-20 · The state government’s view on the negative environmental and social consequences of coal mining is reflected in the Meghalaya State Development Report of 2008. According to the report, ‘unscientific mining has led to contamination of water bodies and rendering of large track of agricultural land infertile and unusable
Get Price2021-6-7 · The Supreme Court had banned coal mining in Meghalaya in 2014. It lifted the ban conditionally in July 2019. In March this year, in a bid to kickstart coal mining, the state government published a detailed SOP for applicants interested in obtaining prospecting license and / or mining lease. In May, CM Conrad Sangma said prospecting license of five landowners had been approved
Get Price2015-5-17 · The truth about Coal mining in Meghalaya Sixth Schedule: Paragraph 9 of the Sixth Schedule explicitly mentions the need for Lease, Licences or Leases for the purpose of prospecting for, or extraction of, minerals. Land Tenure System of the state: The land ownership pattern is only for surface rights and not mineral. Exempted from Nationalisation: Coal in Meghalaya was nationalised and names of the mines bought during the nationalisation process is mentioned in the Coal
Get Price2019-7-16 · 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
Get Price2021-6-11 · The Department of Mining & Geology was created out of its parent Department of Assam Government during the bifurcation of the State of Meghalaya in the year 1972. The Directorate of Mineral Resources (DMR) under the administrative control of the Department of Mining & Geology with its Headquarter at Shillong has 2 (two) Divisional Mining Offices
Get Price2020-9-3 · NGT serves notice to Meghalaya government on illegal coal mining. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has served a notice on the Meghalaya government seeking its response regarding action taken to stop illegal mining and transportation of coal in the state. “The NGT has directed the state government to file a reply within four weeks,” Pawan Sharma
Get Price2020-9-28 · The Meghalaya mining accident happened on 13 December 2018, when 15 miners were trapped in a mine, in the Indian state of Meghalaya. While five miners managed to escape, rescue efforts for the remaining 15 continued till 2 March 2019.The miners were trapped inside the coal
Get Price2019-8-15 · Coal-dependent industries in neighbouring Bangladesh have been badly affected in view of the ongoing ban imposed by a green tribunal on unscientific rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya, officials
Get Price2021-6-4 · The owner of an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya has been arrested, said a police officer. The owner has been running the coal mine in which five miners have been trapped for four days. However, the rescue operation is on. The owner, Shining Langstang, was arrested from Sutunga village near the mine in Meghalaya
Get Price2021-6-25 · The 15 miners had been stuck in the coal mine at a depth of nearly 370 feet after a tunnel was flooded with water from the nearby Lytein river. But their bodies could not be retrieved. In April 2014, the NGT had banned the indiscriminate and hazardous rat hole coal mining in Meghalaya. But mining continued illegally with the authorities turning
Get Price2019-2-20 · Coal reserves are primarily found in the Eas tern India in states of Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and predominantly in North-East regions like Assam and Meghalaya. Despite the presence of coal reserves, commercial mining is not practiced in the North-Eastern regions because of terrain’s unsuitability as well as nature of coal deposits
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