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Meghalaya assures all efforts to ensure resumption of coal mining
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SME Times News Bureau | 23 Mar, 2018
The Meghalaya government will
put in all efforts to ensure resumption of coal mining in the state in
accordance with environmental rules and regulations, the assembly was
told on Thursday.
"Coal mining was a traditional form of
livelihood in the state and therefore the government would make all
efforts to ensure resumption of mining in accordance with the Central
environmental rules and regulations," Public Works Department Minister
Prestone Tynsong said.
Replying to volley of queries during the
Question Hour, he said that the state had incurred loss of Rs 416 crore
in terms of revenue following the NGT's 2014 ban on coal mining.
He
said the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government is likely to adopt
another resolution to urge upon the Central government to invoke Para 12
A (b) of the Sixth Schedule through a Presidential notification to
exempt the state from the central law.
Recalling that the
previous Congress-led government had adopted a resolution urging the
Centre to invoke the provision, he said, "A decision was also taken then
that once the resolution is passed, the leader of the House will take a
delegation to the Centre on this regard which unfortunately did not
happen."
However, Tynsong said that the government will leave no
stone unturned to ensure that the NGT lift its ban, and may even form a
delegation to meet the Prime Minister and President to apprise them on
this matter.
The National Green Tribunal had ordered an interim
ban on "rat-hole" coal mining in Meghalaya from April 17, 2014, after
the All Dimasa Students' Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee
filed an application before the tribunal alleging that the water of the
Kopili river was turning acidic due to coal mining in Jaintia Hills.
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