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I think appropriate action will be taken at the appropriate time against people who are involved in illegal mining. However, there have been reports that illegal mining and transportation of coal is still being carried out in the state. The two activists had gone to East Jaintia Hills to document illegal coal mining and were waylaid by assailants who are believed to have been members of a coal mafia gang operating in the area. SHILLONG: Efforts are on in full force to rescue the 13 miners trapped inside the water-clogged coal pit at Ksan village in Meghalaya 's East Jaintia Hills district, but none have been located till the filing of this report. Nidamon Chullet, a senior National Peoples’ Party (NPP) leader of the area, has been named by one of the victims as the mastermind who led the attack.The National Green Tribunal had imposed an interim ban on unscientific coal mining in 2014..