Shillong, Nov 10 (PTI) Demanding legalisation of rat-hole mining of coal, Meghalaya’s Rajya Sabha MP WR Kharlukhi asked why would people dependent on it suffer because of “policy failure”.
Kharlukhi, the state president of the ruling NPP in Meghalaya, said he was aware of the negative impacts of rat-hole mining on the environment but there was a need to see what was more important — human lives or “other concerns”.
“Why should my people suffer for the sake of failure of a policy somewhere?” he told reporters on Wednesday.
