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Community action brings about stopping of uranium exploration in National Park

Search for uranium deferred, The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata), Shillong, April 29: The Meghalaya government today decided to keep “in abeyance” the proposed exploratory drilling of uranium in Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills district in view of stiff opposition from various quarters.

Sources said at a meeting with a Garo Students’ Union delegation here, chief minister Mukul Sangma said the state government would not go against the wishes of the people by allowing the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) carry out exploratory drilling in the park…….Yesterday in Tura, members of the GSU, Seniors Citizens’ Forum, Post-Graduate Garo Students’ Unions, Tura Government College Students’ Union, the Garo Graduates’ Union and others collectively decided to launch a movement under the banner of Balpakram Anti-Uranium Mining Forum to oppose the exploratory drilling.

The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) | Northeast | Search for uranium deferred

April 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics | antinuclear, radiation, uranium