Meghalaya, a small State in the northeastern region of India, has an abundance of coal and limestone. About 9% of the country’s total limestone reserves are distributed across the State.
A land blessed by nature’s bounty, the State has been at the receiving end of human greed for resources that lie beneath its land, with uncontrolled coal mining and illegal limestone mining. Limestone mining is carried out by open cast method both in large- and small-scale levels. Many of these are illegal. The limestone mined is used chiefly for manufacturing products such as cement, lime and edible lime.
Long line of trucks carrying limestone that is mined from Meghalaya go to Bangladesh, a country with which it shares a border.
