{"id":494587,"date":"2022-05-30T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494587"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:20:39","slug":"rat-hole-coal-mining-hc-asks-meghalaya-to-implement-sc-ngt-rulings-in-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rat-hole-coal-mining-hc-asks-meghalaya-to-implement-sc-ngt-rulings-in-4-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat-hole coal mining: HC asks Meghalaya to implement SC, NGT rulings in 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: The Meghalaya high court has directed the state government to implement recommendations of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and Supreme Court (SC) on illegal rat-hole coal mining within four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>One of the SC directions was allowing the sale of coal, which had already been extracted from mines, prior to a prohibition on rat-hole mining of coal in Meghalaya by NGT in 2014. It was later found that this direction was used as a loophole by many to extract fresh coal and say it was mined prior to the NGT order of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In an order passed on May 24, a high court bench comprising chief justice Sanjib Banerjee and justices HS Thangkhiew and W Diengdoh noted that \u201cnone of the directions issued by the Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court&#8230;and the NGT have been complied with by the concerned authorities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: The Meghalaya high court has directed the state government to implement recommendations of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and Supreme Court (SC) on illegal rat-hole coal mining within four weeks. One of the SC directions was allowing the sale of coal, which had already been extracted from mines, prior to a prohibition on rat-hole mining of coal in Meghalaya by NGT in 2014. It was later found that this direction was used as a loophole by many to extract fresh coal and say it was mined prior to the NGT order of 2014. In an order passed on May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494587","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}