Meghalaya coal mine tragedy exposes state''s apathy for ...
Meghalaya, for instance, is largely an agricultural state but has sizeable deposits of minerals like coal, limestone, uranium, granite, kaolin, clay, glass sand, sillimanite, and small quantities of feldspar and iron ore, quartz, bauxite, and rock phosphate. Since April 2014, the government of Meghalaya has given 16 leases to mine limestone ...