Shillong: The Meghalaya State Pollution Board (MPSCB) will conduct a public hearing on a proposal of the Cement Manufacturing Company Limited (CMCL) to acquire more land for mining of limestone in Lumshnong area in Jaintia Hills.

The public hearing assumes significance in the context that degradation of the environment in Jaintia Hills from mining-related activities has been an issue in the ongoing Budget Session. The issue has been taken up by members from both the Treasury and Opposition benches.

Shillong, March 18: A social organisation in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district has exhorted residents of the Narpuh Elaka not to lend support to a cement plant which is intending to increase the a

Certain legal aspects need to be incorporated: Mukul

SHILLONG: Meghalaya, which does not have a mining policy till date, will have to wait further as the State Cabinet on Monday night deferred the finalisation of the much-awaited policy saying that certain legal aspects need to be incorporated in it.

Bhubaneswar: The total value of minerals produced in Odisha is the highest in the country. The state produced minerals worth Rs 28,287 crore in 2010-11.

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Government’s clean chit to cement plants which are breaching the forest conservation act has been out rightly questioned by the Maitshaphrang Movement, an NGO which used the RTI findings to reveal the alleged exploitation of forest by these cement giants in the Khliehriat sub-division of Jaintia Hills district.

Deputy Chief Minister, In-Charge, Mining and Geology Bindo M Lanong, two days ago, said, “The officials have attested that the areas under limestone mining are not under agriculture or dense forest areas.”

SHILLONG: Endorsing the State government official team’s clean chit to four giant cement factories operating in Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Bindo Lanong attributed unscientific coal mining as a major cause of pollution of streams and rivers in Khleihriat sub division.

It is an irrefutable fact that unscientific “rat hole’ mining has contaminated the water sources and bodies within the periphery of the rich coal deposited sites of Khliehriat sub division. Adding more woes was the scientific declaration that waste from cement plants was the cause of death of aquatic lives in Lukha river.

SHILLONG: The long-delayed State Mining Policy is likely to see the light of the day with the State Government asserting that the Policy would be tabled in the Assembly during the upcoming Budget s

SHILLONG: The Jaintia People Welfare Organization (JPWO), which has been opposing setting up of cement plants in Jaintia Hills district, conducted a survey of the limestone quarries, which the Ceme

Shillong, Jan.

SHILLONG: Highlighting the sensitivity of the issue of mining in the State, Deputy Chief Minister Bindo M Lanong on Wednesday assured of bringing out the State Mining Policy at the earliest.

“We would like to put in place the Mining Policy at the earliest to regulate mining activities in the State,” Lanong who is in charge of Mining and Geology said.