GUWAHATI: The Supreme Court has banned the transportation of coal in Meghalaya on Tuesday, January 15 and has questioned the Meghalaya government for prevailing reasons of continued illegal mining.
It is to be mentioned that the Meghalaya Coal tragedy occurred on 13 December 2018 where 15 miners were trapped for 25 days in a flooded rathole mine at Ksan village in East Jaintia Hills district. Two miners were later found dead.
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A Supreme court bench of Justices which included A.K Sikri and S. Abdul Nazeer, refused to grant coal miners the right to transport coal and asked the Meghalaya state government to prevent illegal coal mining despite the ban already imposed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) and to also file an affidavit.
Since 2014, the Meghalaya Government has been seeking extensions for the transportation of coal.
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Former CM of Meghalaya, Mukul Sangma stated “Today's order of the Supreme Court shows that for the first time in the history of India, this court could no longer trust a state government and the leadership (Conrad Sangma) has to be held responsible.”
