Following the interim order of the National Green Tribunal, transportation of coal using the primitive and unscientific method of rat-hole mining in the state has been stopped, Meghalaya Director General of Police PJP Hanaman today said.
"All SPs were directed to start implementing the orders of the NGT since May 9 when we received the order," Hanaman told reporters.
Since the ball is in my court (after being made one of the respondents in the order) I have no option but to implement it, he said.
The DGP said necessary instructions were given to the SPs to implement it in letter and spirit and ensure that no transportation of coal takes place anywhere in the state.
Hanaman believes that when there is no transportation, production of coal will automatically be stopped in remote areas where the coal mines are located.
The state police chief will also file his compliance report with the NGT in Delhi tomorrow.
The NGT had on April 17 passed an ex-parte interim order banning extraction of coal based on an application filed by the All Dimasa Students' Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee from Assam on April 2.
