Meghalaya government talks tough on illegal coal mining
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The National People’s Party-led alliance government in Meghalaya has stated it could crack down on illegal coal mining as constituent companion Bharatiya Janata Party demanded the State Home Minister’s resignation for the death of six workers in a 180-ft coal pit on January 21.
Meghalaya Home Minister Lakhmen Rymbui represents the regional United Democratic Party.
“We do not know who is indulging in illegal coal mining in East Jaintia Hills district. I am made to understand that the place where the illegal activity took place is far away from the villages,” Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong stated in Shillong on Monday.
Six miners, all from Assam, died after a crane collapsed into the pit in a forest named Sorkari in East Jaintia Hills district on January 21. The website isn’t removed from Ksan, the place a minimum of 15 miners drowned in December, 2018.
Insisting that motion was being taken towards illegal rat-hole coal mining, banned by the National Green Tribunal since April 2014, Mr. Tynsong stated a number of individuals have been picked up in reference to the mine mishap.
The Meghalaya government has been dealing with flak from the Opposition Congress and ally BJP for failing to cease illegal mining and transportation of coal.
While demanding Mr. Rymbui’s resignation, the BJP has been searching for an unbiased probe into instances of illegal mining actions.
