GUWAHATI
Unauthorised transportation of illegally mined coal is continuing in Meghalaya, an interim report submitted by a special panel to the High Court of Meghalaya said.
In April 2022, the High Court appointed retired judge B. P. Katakey to head a committee to make recommendations on the measures to be taken by the Meghalaya government in compliance with the directives of the Supreme Court and National Green Tribunal (NGT), which had banned rat-hole coal mining in April 2014. One of the tasks was monitoring the coal that had been extracted by the time the ban was made effective.
