A joint letter by HYC president Roy Kupar Synrem and General Secretary Rhembor Saibon, addressed to the chief minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday, said that public consultations/public hearings are vital for project proposals of any kind which affects the local population and the community as a whole because they provide a democratic platform for stakeholders to voice concerns and provide input, ensuring transparency and accountability in the decision-making process. “They also allow communities to obtain crucial information about a project’s potential environmental and social impacts, fostering public trust and the power to refuse or reject such projects, which may be harmful and detrimental to the lives and existence of the community itself. As such, the above OM of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) strikes at the root of this important process, and the same is done to silence communities such as ours to raise our concerns when it comes to the potential threat that such projects may pose to the very existence of our community as a whole. ‘Therefore, we call upon the Chief Minister to take necessary and urgent steps to convene the Special Session of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly to adopt a Resolution to oppose the Office Memorandum dated 8th September, 2025 issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Impact Assessment Division, Government of India under the Subjects: Fast Tracking of projects involving Mining of Critical, Strategic and Atomic Minerals-reg.” in relation to our State only and to impress upon the Government of India to close down any programme or proposal to mine Uranium in the State of Meghalaya”, the HYC said.
The HYC will also hold public meetings in West Khasi Hills and South West Khasi Hills districts, as well as in Shillong, to inform the public about the effect of the Office Memorandum and to solicit support to reject/refuse any attempt by the Government of India to mine uranium from the Khasi-Jaintia Hills region of the state
