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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 Hills Districts of Meghalaya in accordance with mining .
Social activists urge Supreme Court to ban coal mining in Meghalaya completely The report also rubbishes claims that the ban on mining has hurt the livelihoods of poor indigenous people as it ...
But the reason one sees so many coalladen trucks on the roads of Meghalaya is because, in at least seven consequent orders, the NGT and then the Supreme Court, hearing petitions by coalmine owners, allowed the transportation of coal mined prior to the implementation of the ban on April 17, 2014.
Nov 14, 2018· Telegraph India reported that 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 ...
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.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the Meghalaya government to deposit the Rs 100 crore fine imposed on it by the NGT for failing to curb illegal coal mining with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph directed the state ...
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 ...
Jan 15, 2019· As on May 31 last year, the extracted coal yet to be transported stood at 1,76, 655 metric tonnes. A month after 15 miners got trapped in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, a group of social activists recently released a citizens'' report, urging the Supreme Court to crackdown on coal mining and the coal mafias in the state.
Shillong: The National Green Tribunal will hold a meeting in Shillong on Monday to review its order banning coal mining in Meghalaya. Coal mining has been going on in Meghalaya since early 19th ...
Four miners die of suffocation in Megalaya coal mine. Four miners have died of suffocation inside hazardous rathole coal pits in a remote mining area near the IndoBangladesh border in Meghalaya''s South West Khasi Hills district and another was crushed in a quarry, officials said on Saturday. Oct 12, 2013, 13:35 PM IST
The Meghalaya government has maintained that it is in favour of regulated coal mining activities in the state. The state government said this in the apex court during a hearing on a petition filed by Lber Laloo, who wanted the ban on coal mining, imposed by the NGT since April 2014, to be lifted.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the owner of a coal mine in Meghalaya where 15 people have been trapped for nearly two months saying he was responsible for the illegal mining due to ...
Jan 15, 2019· In a big blow to the mining lobby in Meghalaya, the Supreme Court today refused to give more time to mine owners to transport the coal already extracted. The top court hauled up the Meghalaya ...
Coal hearing. By Special Correspondent On Mar 27, 2019. New Delhi: The hearing on the coal mining ban in Meghalaya in the Supreme Court was deferred to Thursday since it could not take place on Tuesday. The court could not take up the matter because it was hearing another case which took time.
The Meghalaya government challenged the NGT ban in the Supreme Court in November this year. In its last hearing, the apex court extended the time for transportation of mined coal till January 31, 2019. As on May 31, 2018, the extracted coal that is yet to be transported is 1,76,655 metric tonnes (MT). The next hearing will be on January 15, 2019.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow miners to transport extracted coal lying at various sites in Meghalaya. A bench of Justices A K Sikri, Abdul Nazeer and MR Sh refused to grant ...
The Meghalaya government has maintained in the Supreme Court that it is in favour of regulating coal mining activities in the state. The state government said this in the apex court during a hearing on a petition filed by one Lber Laloo who wanted the ban on coal mining, imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) since April 2014, to be lifted.
Jan 15, 2019· The bench issued notice to the Meghalaya government, the centre and others seeking their response on various issues connected with coal mining in the state and posted the matter for hearing ...
Mar 13, 2019· The Supreme Court hearing coincided with Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma informing the 60member State Assembly that more than 1,000 cases of illegal coal mining .
SHILLONG: The Supreme Court has fixed November 12 to hear the plea to resume coal mining and transportation of extracted coal. The court on Friday took up the petition of the State Coordination Committee of Coal Owners and Mine Dealers Forum for transportation of the already extracted coal.
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 mining ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in April 2014.
Shillong April 26: The hearing of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on ban on coal mining in Meghalaya will be held on Thursday. The NGT held the hearing in Tuesday in New Delhi but fixed another hearing on Thursday where the Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, are expected to give their responses on mining guidelines submitted by Meghalaya.
Jan 18, 2019· The Supreme Court will be resuming the hearing in the Meghalaya miners case today. The Apex court in the last hearing pulled up the Meghalaya government over its inability to act in time after 15 miners were trapped in an illegal rathole mine in Meghalaya''s East Jaintia Hills district.
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 ...
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