SHILLONG: The Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday deferred the case relating to further transportation of extracted coal and payment of royalty to March 20 at New Delhi.
Informing this over phone from Delhi, Ranjan Mukherjee, Counsel of the Meghalaya Government, told The Shillong Times that the tribunal had received report of the Commissioner who had visited different districts of the state to oversee the how the directives of the NGT was being implemented.
The NGT had stopped the transportation of already extracted coal on February 12.
