SHILLONG, Oct 7: Residents of West Khasi Hills coal-deposit belts are aggrieved with the government for the neglect to the areas in spite of huge revenue they have been giving to the State.
The Khasi Students Union (KSU) president, Samuel Jyrwa, along with a 15-member delegation of the Union reached New Delhi on Friday for their meeting with the National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movement (NAAM).
Unknown to the people of Meghalaya, the 130-day old Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance (MUA) government was, at its inception, given a clear direction by the Congress High Command and the UPA government at the Centre that the contentious issue of uranium mining has to be sorted out sooner than later.
ON AUGUST 24, the Meghalaya government decided to hand over a large parcel of land in West Khasi Hills to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited. Citizens
