Mining

Status of water quality in coal mining areas of Meghalaya, India

The coal is one of the extensively utilized minerals in Meghalaya. Though coal deposits in the state is found all along the southern fringe of Shillong plateau, Jaintial Hills District is a major producer of coal.

Publication Date: 
19/03/2004
Sumarlin Swer, O. P. Singh
Indian School of Mines
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Jaintia Hills, Mining, Water Resources, Water Quality, Coal, Meghalaya
Forests

  Forests are the main source of herbs

Meghalaya s abundant flora is the basis of its traditional healthcare system. Now, rapid urbanisation and breakdown of the community structure are disturbing the balance. JOHN F KHARSHIING, Chairperson, Khasi School of Medicine in Shillong, talks to VIB

Publication Date: 
30/08/2003
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Forests, Traditional Knowledge, Health Care, Herbal Medcine, Medicinal Plants, Flora, Governance, Meghalaya
Environment

Proceedings of the fourth national workshop on environment statistics - 22-23 April, 2003, Shillong

This report contains the proceedings of the fourth national workshop on environment statistics held on 22-23 April 2003 at Shillong. The workshop focused on harmonization of the framework for environmental accounting in India based on the system of integrated environment and economic accounting and identification of data requirement for environmental management.

Publication Date: 
May 2003
Central Statistical Organisation
Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, Air Pollution, Ecosystems, Wetlands, Water Quality, Forest Resources, Wildlife, India, Meghalaya, Statistics, Water Pollution
India

 Scrutinising disasters

Flood Studies in India brings to fore several aspects of this natural disaster that are not yet conventional wisdom in policy circles. The book looks at floods from a variety of expertise areas, such

Publication Date: 
14/06/2002
Dipak Gyawali
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Glaciers, Watershed Development, Floods, Flood Control, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Research, Information, Bangladesh, India, Meghalaya
India

 Project marred

there is no money to conduct an elephant census in Meghalaya. Faced with frequent human-pachyderm conflicts, the state forest department had planned an elephant census last month as part of its

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
Down to Earth
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Shifting Cultivation, Conflicts, Elephant, Finance, Meghalaya
India

 Logjam

Whenever the Supreme Court pulls the trigger, why does it miss the target? Because governments like those of the seven Northeast states work hard to defeat every good intention. The apex court imposed an interim ban on felling in forests on December 1

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
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Forest Resources, Deforestation, Forest Products, Trade, Biodiversity, Timber Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
India

 The accused

Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
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Forest Resources, Deforestation, Forest Products, Trade, Biodiversity, Timber Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
India

 The verdict

Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
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Forest Resources, Deforestation, Forest Products, Trade, Biodiversity, Timber Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
India

 At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local based prosperity

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
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Forest Resources, Deforestation, Forest Products, Trade, Biodiversity, Timber Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
Wildlife

 Threatening trade

many medicinal plants species in Meghalaya and other north-eastern states are on the verge of extinction because of uncontrolled and illegal trade. This was stated in a recent report of the Trade

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Trade, Medicinal Plants, Meghalaya, Extinct Species

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