Centre has accepted the proposal of scientific mining of coal in the state of Meghalaya. The govt. has granted the mining leases to 4 miners.
“I am happy to inform you that about a week or 10 days back, the Government of India has approved the mining leases to four miners.
Hence, we have overcome the largest hurdles that we had for the process of scientific mining and legal mining to start in the state,” Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said,
“Therefore, now once we have the public hearing and the forest clearance and mining plan approved which are procedural aspects, which we would expect anything between 20-45 days these approvals will be done then the green signals for starting of scientific mining is through and hence this is major steps where we will finally see and move towards the aspects of scientific mining.” CM further said.
