{"id":85675,"date":"2019-04-04T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:34:52","slug":"miners-meghalaya-to-move-sc-for-end-to-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/miners-meghalaya-to-move-sc-for-end-to-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners: Meghalaya to move SC for end to op"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Meghalaya Chief Minister has said that the State\ngovernment will appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the operations to retrieve\nthe bodies of miners. 15 miners have been trapped in an illegal rat hole mine located\nat Ksan near the Lytein River in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya since December\n13 2018.<\/li><li>In January 2019, the Supreme Court had asked the\nCentre and Meghalaya government to continue multi-agency operation to rescue\nthe miners. So far only two bodies have been retrieved.<\/li><li>Rat Hole Mining is mining procedure which\ninvolve digging of very small tunnel of only 3-4 feet high for extracting coal.\nThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) had banned rat hole mining in 2014. The ban\nwas on grounds of the practice being unscientific and unsafe for workers.<\/li><li>However, the orders of the Tribunal has been repeatedly\nviolated and the State Government has failed to check illegal mining\neffectively.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya Chief Minister has said that the State government will appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the operations to retrieve the bodies of miners. 15 miners have been trapped in an illegal rat hole mine located at Ksan near the Lytein River in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya since December 13 2018. In January 2019,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/miners-meghalaya-to-move-sc-for-end-to-op\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miners: Meghalaya to move SC for end to op<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3077],"class_list":["post-85675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-rat-hole-mining","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704879042},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}