Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "CAG faults city’s waste processing" appearing in the Shillong Times dated 16.09.2024 dated 24/03/2025. Reply affidavit dated March 21, 2025 has been filed by the Deputy Commissioner, East Khasi Hills district, Shillong. The affidavit stated that two …
FOLLOWING the detection of organised smuggling of semi-processed uranium in Meghalaya, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has directed the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to review security arrangements in all nuclear installations in India. The alarm bells were sounded after 2.5 kg of semi-processed uranium were recovered in mid-October …
MEGHALAYA faces a new threat: the wholesale degradation of its air, soil and water by coal mining. It is damaging the greenscape through indiscriminate felling, excavations, tunnelling and the dumping of debris. In blind pursuit of black gold, mine operators ignore the essential harmony of the environment and continue to …
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. Chief minister S C Marak says he will send a multi-party delegation to the uranium mines in Jaduguda, …
FINANCE minister Manmohan Singh's largesse in the form of a five-year tax holiday to entrepreneurs pro m*oting industries in the northeast is already producing an envirowmen- tal fallout. Eastern Mining Ltd (EML), the country's first private coal-mining company, is to begin large-scale operations in Meghalaya and this could damage further …
Bamboo roofs, floors, and even doors: that's the style of houses in the northeastern states, home to more than 50 per cent of the genetic resources of Indian bamboo. Of the nearly 100 species belonging to 19 genera in the country, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Assam together account for 16 …
RESIDENTS of Domiasiat and Wahkaliar villages near Cherrapunji in Meghalaya have formed village action committees to resist a proposed uranium mine in the region. Students, welfare organisations and opposition parties in the state have joined hands to form the Khasi Jaintia Environment Protection Council (KJEPC) to support them. KJEPC convener …
An Act to provide for the extension and application of, and to amend the Assam Forest Regulation, 1891 (Regulation 7 of 1891) and the Meghalaya Forest Regulation and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. By virtue of this Act, the Assam Forest Regulation, 1891 has been extended in its …
The State Board for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, Meghalaya was constituted by the Government of Meghalaya on the Sixteenth Day of November, Nineteen Eighty Three in pursuance of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. After the enactment of the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) …
