Jaintia hills

Love to be there. It's heaven. The lust green hills and the chill dropping temperatures makes the hills a natural wonder. NH7 Weekender is a Musical Festival which happens annually in the month of November in these hills with the stages set up in the pits among hills. The footfall makes you feel as if you are on a foreign land. Music and nature love must sure visit this place during this season.

It's place is very nice beautiful it's a nature background..... The sound of river is like calling to stay there.....

In Meghalaya, flouting the ban on miningnnAn ‘underground economy’ has for long been known to fuel Meghalaya’s politics. It hasntaken the collapse of a coal mine and – in all probability – the death of at least 15 miners for the reality of illegal mining to hit hard.nThe accident on December 13, when the miners struck an aquifer leading to the flooding of a 370-foot mine, was the first after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) banned unscientificn‘rat-hole mining’ in the State on April 17, 2014.nWhere is the mine?nThe mine, about 130 km from the capital Shillong, is at Ksan near the river Lytein in thenSaipung area of East Jaintia Hills, one of eight mining districts of the State.nThe site is 48 km from where rights and anti-mining activist Agnes Kharshiing wasnassaulted a month ago for her campaign against illegal mining. East Jaintia Hills has a majornshare of an estimated coal reserve of 576 million tonnes in the State, which also hasnsubstantial deposits of limestone and other minerals. Much of the coal sent out ofnMeghalaya before the NGT ban was from this district. An assessment by a committee,nconstituted by the NGT, recorded the highest amount of extracted coal — 3.7 million tonnesnof a total 6.5 million tonnes — in the State in September 2014.nWhat prompted the NGT ban?nThe NGT ban, retained in 2015, followed a petition filed by the All Dimasa Students’ Unionnin Assam. The union had cited a study by O.P. Singh of the North Eastern Hill University thatnsaid mining in the coal belts and coal stockpiles in the Jaintia Hills areas were pollutingnrivers and streams flowing down to Assam’s Dima Hasao district, killing aquatic life andnrendering the water unfit for drinking or irrigation. Apart from the ecological impact, thenNGT observed that “there is umpteen number of cases where by virtue of rat-hole mining,nduring the rainy season, water flooded into the mining areas resulting in the death ofnmany.” The trigger for the ban was the case of 15 miners trapped fatally inside a floodednmine in the South Garo Hills in July 2012. In between, a Shillong-based NGO filed a publicninterest litigation petition against illegal coal mining, claiming the rat-hole mines employed 70,000 child labourers. The government later said only 222 children were found workingnin the mines.nWhat is rat-hole mining?nCoal mining in Meghalaya, financed by businessmen from outside, took off commercially innthe 1980s. Since much of the State’s land is community-owned, it was easy for the moneyednlocals to purchase land and employ non-tribal labourers to burrow for maximum profit.nRat-hole mining, involving digging of tunnels 3-4 feet high, was the most preferred to strikenat narrow coal seams deeper inside the hills.nThe less dangerous of two methods of digging tunnels is side-cutting on the slopes. Thenother method entails digging a rectangular pit vertically to a depth of up to 400 metres.nRat-hole-sized tunnels are dug horizontally wherever the coal seams are found for thenworkers to crawl in and out. The NGT found these techniques unscientific and unsafe fornworkers.nWhy does it continue?nMany who matter in Meghalaya own a coal mine or are associated with the trade. Theyninclude politicians, bureaucrats, police officers and extremists. In 2015, the Statengovernment said the ban would cost it Rs. 600 crore in revenue.

Beautiful place.

One of Fridz from this place I wanna c this place