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Feb 20, 2019 Rat-hole mining is primarily practiced only in Meghalaya. Such cases are not witnessed in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh because the coal seems are thick in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh while in Meghalaya coal seems are very thin. So, economically it is not a good idea to do an open mining, and therefore, they prefer rat-hole mining.
Sep 16, 2019 SHILLONG: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) committee has ordered an inquiry into the illegal mining of slate in Meghalaya. This came after the committee has conducted audit on the source of fuel used by the cement factories and power plants in the state of Meghalaya…
May 06, 2021 Centre approves prospecting license for Coal Mining in Meghalaya. Under the Mines & Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, 1957, (as amended …
Dec 07, 2020 Rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya. December 7, 2020 December 7, 2020. The NGT ban on illegal rat-hole coal mining has helped some villages to regain its lost ground in the Meghalaya. Although NGT ban did not stop illegal mining, it helped villages like Moolamylliang reform in the East Jaintia Hills district.
Feb 09, 2015 Project details: Meghalaya is the third uranium rich state in the country after Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. The state accounts for 16 per cent of Indias uranium reserves, with deposits estimated to be around 9,500 tones and 4,000 tones respectively at Domiasiat and Wakhyn, both in West Khasi hills region.
To facilitate uranium mining in Meghalaya, the state government is considering exempting the Land Transfer Act from the uranium rich belt in Mawthabah so that the Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) can set up a processing unit there. However, Chief Minister D D Lapang's move has been criticised by NGOs who are opposed to uranium mining.
Jan 14, 2021 Former Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma has claimed that illegal unabated coal mining is still being carried out in the state. Sangma in a letter written to the state chief secretary said that during a visit to West Jaintia Hills he found that illegal coal mining was taking place in the area.
May 17, 2015 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 ...
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.
Sep 03, 2020 While seeking NGT’s intervention to stop illegal coal mining and action against those perpetuating the unlawful activities, Sharma reminded the green court on its order imposing a complete ban on “rat hole mining” in Meghalaya and thereafter on the basis of several recommendations of the committee constituted by it, the tribunal issued ...
Aug 30, 2011 Shillong/Khliehriat, Aug. 29: The coal mines in Meghalaya are death traps, feel many migrant labourers who are engaged in extracting the black gold by adopting unscientific rat-hole mining methods. Because of the hazardous nature of work, the labourers continue to perish in the deep and dark tunnels while digging for coal.
Jan 02, 2019 The ban was ordered on complaints that Meghalaya’s preferred mode of mineral extraction, rathole mining, was polluting rivers and water sources. Much of Meghalaya’s 576.48 million metric tonnes of coal reserve (of which 133.13 million metric tonnes is proven) is in thin seams located deep below with a large overburden.
As noted by O.P. Singh, “coal mining in Meghalaya has benefited the people and the state and has been a means of wealth generation for some people of the coal mining area. However, it also (is) a bare fact that the benefit of coal mining is going to a small group of people, whereas a majority are excluded to share the benefit due to various ...
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 (DMO), at Jowai and Williamnagar, and 15 (fifteen) …
Apr 27, 2021 Coal is an important mineral resource of Meghalaya and is mined through a primitive mining method commonly known as rat-hole mining. The coal deposits present on the hill-slopes and along the riversides are mined by ‘side-cutting'. However, coal present underground in plain land is mined through a shaft/pit by the ‘box cutting’ method.
May 22, 2021 SHILLONG, May 21: The Union Ministry of Coal has set the ball rolling for scientific mining of coal in Meghalaya by approving five mining applications submitted by the state government.
Sep 28, 2020 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 mine at a depth of around 370 feet (112 meters) in Jaintia Hills district. The tunnel the miners were in flooded with water after they cut into an adjacent mine …
Feb 06, 2016 Most of the accounted mining industries in the northeastern region are located in the states of Assam and Meghalaya. Assam is known for its petroleum and natural gas reserves, coal, limestone and minor minerals; Meghalaya has established coal and limestone mining industries. Despite their economic importance, the mining industry in the northeast has been systemically plagued by a …
Mar 15, 2021 Shillong: The Meghalaya government has arrested 95 people and chargesheeted 146 others within this year in cases related to illegal coal mining in the state. The information was shared by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma in the Meghalaya Assembly on Monday, in response to a question raised by legislator Mohendro Rapsang.
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