SHILLONG: Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) South West Khasi Hills District Unit, president, Forwardman Nongrem demanded that the State Government should table two resolutions in the ongoing Autumn Session on issues pertaining to uranium mining in the state.
In a statement, Nongrem said, “There should be a demand from the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to cancel the environmental clearance issued by the department in December 2007 to mine uranium in Mawthabah and Domiasiat.”
The government should also move the resolution in the Assembly to demand from the MoEFCC not to issue any environmental clearance for uranium mining, he added. The union demanded from the public representatives to ask the Centre to place a resolution in the Parliament to declare that uranium mining is closed in the state. ) Nongrem said, “We will not accept the claims of the Uranium Corporation of India that it has stopped its operation in the state.
He added that the KHADC should also take up the matter with the Centre and the ministry concerned.
