Shillong, Sep 22: Even as much of the state is in a ferment because of a directive from the central government that allegedly makes it easier to bypass norms in order to carry out uranium mining, the Hynñiewtrep Integrated Territorial Organisation (HITO) today had someone else in its sights, namely the National People’s Youth Front (NPYF), the youth wing of the National People’s Party (NPP).

It was the NPYF that a few days ago raised the matter of the office memorandum of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) for exempting uranium and other atomic mineral mining projects from mandatory public consultations and hearings.

However, in a release today, HITO said that this is inaccurate.

The office memo “merely exempts certain atomic and critical and strategic

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