Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of All Dimasa Students Union Dima Hasao Dist. Committee Vs. State of Meghalaya & Ors. dated 02/12/2014 regarding coal mining in the state of Meghalaya. An Application filed on behalf of the State of Meghalaya praying that the two points where the Committee constituted by the Tribunal has directed installation of weigh bridges for the purposes of weighing extracted coal in transportation be shifted to some other points of exit to Assam.

The order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of All Dimasa Students Union Dima Hasao Dist. Committee Vs. State of Meghalaya & Ors. dated 12/11/2014 regarding coal mining in Megahalaya. The Counsel appearing for the Applicants submit that they are finding serious difficulties in transporting the already extracted coal in terms of the Orders of the Tribunal as the State has not provided the requisite infrastructure and facilities regulating the transportation of the same.

Meghalaya is doing away with chemical fertilizers and pesticides which reportedly causes millions of cases of pesticide poisoning every year, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma told the assembly today.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Circuit Bench at High Court of Meghalaya, Shillong) in the matter of Impulse NGO Network & Others Vs. State of Meghalaya & Others dated 10/10/2014 regarding illegal, unauthorised and unscientific mining in the entire State of Meghalaya for a considerable time. The Tribunal noted that Meghalaya possesses rich deposits of high calorific value coal, and its mining was being carried on by traditional non-scientific method commonly known as "rat-hole mining".

Extracted coal allowed to be transported with stringent riders

SHILLONG: The NGT, while hearing a petition filed by a city resident Naba Bhattarcharjee on the pollution of the Wahumkhrah, Umshyrpi and Umiam lake, has directed the State Government-run agencies

Fifty nine people died in flash flood and landslide triggered by cloud burst in Meghalaya, the State Government said on Tuesday.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today stated that the State authorities should pay proper heed to the issue of environment rather than empathizing with the financial loss of a certain section of

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Circuit Bench at High Court of Meghalaya, Shillong) in the matter of Nababrata Bhattacharjee Vs Chief Secretary, State of Meghalaya & Others dated 07/10/2014 on the issue of dumping of solid waste and garbage as well as haphazard construction activities on the bank of the two rivers - Wah Umkhrah and Umshyrpi. The Tribunal also directed the Umiam Hydroelectric Power Plant, Umiam, Meghalaya (Barapani) to be impleaded as the Respondent No. 3.

SHILLONG, September 29: The State Co–ordination Committee of Coal Owners, Miners and Dealers Forum (SCCCOMDF), today said that the ban on coal mining by the NGT and certain rules imposed by it has

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