{"id":363738,"date":"2020-07-20T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363738"},"modified":"2020-07-20T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:57:48","slug":"assam-orders-judicial-probe-into-illegal-coal-mining-in-dehing-patkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-orders-judicial-probe-into-illegal-coal-mining-in-dehing-patkai\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam orders judicial probe into illegal coal mining in Dehing Patkai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government on Saturday ordered a judicial probe into allegations of illegal coal mining in Upper Assam\u2019s Dehing Patkai rainforest region \u2014 in the eye of a controversy for the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>A release from the Chief Minister\u2019s Office on Saturday said that a one-man inquiry panel comprising retired Gauhati High Court Judge Brajendra Prasad Katakey would \u201cinvestigate the allegations against coal mining in the sanctuary since 2003\u201d. The panel is required to submit its report within six months.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a conditional clearance by the National Board of Wildlife\u2019s (NBWL) to a coal mining project by Coal India Limited (CIL) in the Saleki Proposed Reserve Forest (PRF) of the Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve had sparked protests in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government on Saturday ordered a judicial probe into allegations of illegal coal mining in Upper Assam\u2019s Dehing Patkai rainforest region \u2014 in the eye of a controversy for the last few months. A release from the Chief Minister\u2019s Office on Saturday said that a one-man inquiry panel comprising retired Gauhati High Court Judge Brajendra Prasad Katakey would \u201cinvestigate the allegations against coal mining in the sanctuary since 2003\u201d. The panel is required to submit its report within six months. In April, a conditional clearance by the National Board of Wildlife\u2019s (NBWL) to a coal mining project by Coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}