South Garo Hills, Meghalaya
Recent activity
All 1 in the last 60 days- 24 Sept 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedBrick Earth Mine
Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.
Other clearances these proposals declare
- Forest land diversion declared
- 1
- Forest land sought for diversion
- Area not stated
- Wildlife board recommendation declared
- 0
- In or near a protected area
- 0
- In an eco-sensitive zone
- 0
These counts are taken from the application forms of the 2 of 2 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 1 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.
- Proposals naming this district
- 2
- Category A proposals
- None
- Families declared displaced
- None declared
- Families declared affected
- None declared
Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.
Fifth Schedule status
Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area
Article 244(1) applies the Fifth Schedule in every State other than Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, so no part of Meghalaya is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area and PESA does not apply here. A different protection does: this district lies within an Autonomous District Council, under the Sixth Schedule (Articles 244(2) and 275(1)), which has its own consent and land-transfer safeguards.
OrderConstitution of India, Article 244(1) · Article 244(1)
What the record shows
Half or more of the people counted here in 2011 were Scheduled Tribe: 94.3%, against 8.55% nationally.
Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.
Who lives there
Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.
- Total population
- 1,42,334
- Households
- 24,527
- Average household size
- 5.80
- 0.95 above India's 4.85India
- Scheduled Tribe share of population
- 94.3%
- 85.8 points above IndiaIndia
- Scheduled Caste share of population
- 0.2%
- 16.4 points below IndiaIndia
- Children aged 0-6
- 19.6%
- 6.0 points above IndiaIndia
- Literacy rate
- 71.7%
- 1.3 points below IndiaIndia
- Sex ratio
- 945
- 2.70 above India's 942.6India
What they live on
How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.
- Total workers
- 53,069
- Work participation rate
- 37.3%
- 2.5 points below IndiaIndia
- Workers dependent on land
- 63.5%
- 9.0 points above IndiaIndia
- Cultivators
- 53.0%
- 28.4 points above IndiaIndia
- Agricultural labourers
- 10.5%
- 19.4 points below IndiaIndia
- Marginal workers
- 27.7%
- 2.9 points above IndiaIndia
- Household industry workers
- 2.4%
- 1.5 points below IndiaIndia
How households live
Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.
- Rural households owning land
- 36.2%
- 9.9 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
- Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month
- 18.5%
- 5.8 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
- Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour
- 32.9%
- 18.9 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
- Rural households with a salaried member
- 9.5%
- 1.2 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
When these were filed
Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.
The timeline counts all 2 proposals here, since each one records the date it was first filed.
What kind of projects these are
The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.
- Non-Coal Mining 50%
- River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 50%
The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.
What is proposed here
These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.
- Category B2EC Granted2026-05-05
Brick Earth Mine
KARTUSH R. MARAK · Non-Coal Mining
- Category B1ToR Granted2024-06-03
Simsang Dam Project
BRAHMAPUTRA BOARD SHILLONG · River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects
All 2 proposals that name this district, newest first.