The Union ministry of home affairs wants to know: what is the Meghalaya government going to do about the People s Budget ?

10 years ago, Down To Earth reported on the state of sacred groves in India see: Down To Earth, January 31, 1994 . Patches of forest protected

Uranium rich Meghalaya tells mining PSU

spurred by the success of the Taj eco-city project

Meghalaya becomes a quarry for uncontrolled coal mining

The Meghalaya government is taking no chances even though uranium mining in the state has been given a clean chit by a high-level team led by Atomic Energy Commission chairperson R Chidambaram.

A private firm, Eastern ANning Ud, is scheduled to boon large scale operations in a sao" already ravaged by several small mining ventures. But skft officials seem blissfully ignorant of the threat.

Villagers, students, welfare organisations and opposition parties have come together and formed a council to protest the proposed mining and processing of uranium in Meghalaya

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