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It is unfortunate that Meghalaya, which is one of the most uraniumrich States, remains untapped because of opposition from locals despite clearances by UCIL. ... the factum of illegal mining ...

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.

The state of Meghalaya has experienced many disturbances in relation to the issue of immigration. ... celebration in 2017 was also aimed at expressing their anger at the attempt by Uranium Corporation of India to start uranium mining in the State. ... They claimed that most of them are illegal immigrants and street trade is providing them with ...

Illegal Mining : All Primary tabs. All (active tab) Articles; Videos; Interviews × For latest updates on nCOVID19 around the world visit our INTERACTIVE COVID MAP. Newsclick Team. JK: Mining Without Environmental Clearance . 04 Jul 2020. After securing a majority of the mining contracts in Kashmir, the nonlocal contractors have already ...

The plan to mine uranium in Meghalaya to address the needs of the nuclear industry in India has run into opposition and protests in the state. Among others, Khasi Students Union emerges as one of the main opponent. The students opposing the project fear that uranium mining would affect the environment and open floodgates of infiltration in the ...

New Uranium Mining Projects Meghalaya, India. Meghalaya regional parties committed to antiuranium mining stand .... one of India''s biodiversity rich area home to some of the worlds endangered flora ... of Meghalaya is already facing threat from poachers and illegal coal mining activities. More details » Get Price

Jan 04, 2019· Meghalaya: A Gold Mine Yet to Be Tapped by January 4, 2019 0 comments Agnes Kharshiing and Amita Sangma, two wellknown environmentalists from Meghalaya, were brutally attacked last year by a group of 3040 people, suspected to be members of the coal mining mafia in Meghalaya''s East Jaintia Hills district.

SHILLONG, May 20: The Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government will look into reports that the Atomic Minerals Directorate (AMD) and Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) are illegally extracting and transporting uranium from Meghalaya, as per an assurance made by the Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma on Monday.

Mining bonanza. In order to understand how rich the North East is in mineral deposits, just take a look at page 24 of the government''s own Exploration and Mining Opportunities in India An Investor Guide, Ministry of Mines, Government of India, 15 August, 2015.. Meghalaya, for instance, is largely an agricultural state but has sizeable deposits of minerals like coal, limestone, uranium ...

May 20, 2019· SHILLONG: Chief minister Conrad Sangma said the state government will look into the allegations of illegal drilling and illegal supply of uranium in the black market if there are such reports of such activities in the state. Speaking to reporters here on Monday, he said the government that the Uranium operation is a sensitive issue and said, "There is no question of such things happening.

At a time when rescue operations are going on in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya to rescue trapped miners, a report submitted to the Supreme Court claims involvement of the State''s top politicians in the illegal coal trade.. It may be mentioned that fifteen miners continue to be trapped inside a flooded 320feet coal mine which collapsed 16 days ago.

Jan 12, 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 ...

A senior Meghalaya government official said the union ministry of environment and forests had already allowed UCIL to start uranium mining for the annual production of 375,000 tonnes of uranium ore and processing of 1,500 tonnes of the mineral ore per day in West Khasi Hills district.

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Aug 14, 2020· 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 are allegations of covert uranium mining operations carried on by the Atomic Minerals Division, Government ...

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.

Dec 31, 2018· Guwahati: The public furore over 15 labourers trapped inside a rathole mine in Meghalaya''s East Jaintia Hills district since December 13 has sharpened focus on illegal coal mining in the state despite a ban clamped by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2014 which is said to have contributed to the Congress defeat in the recent assembly election.

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 .

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A file photo of a miner in a rathole mine in Meghalaya. Credit: Monali Zeya Hazra/CSE Two days after a judicial committee submitted its report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) flagging violations in Meghalaya to the tribunal''s 2014 ban on illegal rathole mining, it imposed a Rs 100 crore fine on the state government on January 4, 2018.

dents Union (KSU) in Meghalaya has been engaged in an antiuranium mining agitation against the Uranium Corporation of India Limited''s (UCIL) proposed plan to start mining in Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills. The KSU is in opposition to the Meghalaya government''s decision to lease 422 hectares of land to UCIL for 30 years.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday categorically opposed uranium mining in his state in a move that may have resonance in India''s Northeast. Meghalaya has witnessed sustained pressure from the Centre to facilitate mining and processing of its considerable uranium deposits for the country''s ambitious nuclear power and weapons programme.

General (Meghalaya) United Nations concerned about India''s suspension of NGO on the pretext of using foreign funding for drawing attention to uranium mining in Meghalaya: On Sep. 19, 2018, the United Nations'' Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Human Rights presented his report to the 39th Session of the Human Rights Council: Additionally, on 1 January 2018, it was reported that the Centre for ...

By Our Reporter | Shillong, July 21, 2018: A year after the uranium mining issue rocked Meghalaya with NGOs demanding the revocation of the decisions taken in this regard, the Department of Atomic Energy has yet again reassured that uranium mining project in Meghalaya will not be forcefully pushed but will start only after obtaining all statutory clearances from the state government.
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