Shillong, Apr 13: The NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government has decided that its ministers should make a visit once in three months to every district of the state to review implementation of various schemes.

Chief minister Conrad K Sangma informed this in the Assembly on Friday while replying to a discussion on the state budget.

“We have decided that every minister will visit all the 11 districts on a rotation basis once in every three months to review the implementation of various government schemes, and conduct public hearings to understand problems faced by the people in the respective districts of the state.

He said the ministers will also submit regular reports to the state government in order to ensure that implementation of various schemes are properly monitored and improved.

“We may not do different things, but we will do things differently,” Conrad said while informing that the visit by ministers to different districts of the state will start in the first quarter itself.

On the issue of ongoing ban on coal mining by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in the state, the chief minister said, he along with other ministers will also meet the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Coal Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi.

He said that royalty share (from coal) has come down, adding, “we are working on this issue in an aggressive way.”

The Meghalaya Cabinet has decided to pursue the resolution passed by the state Assembly to seek Centre’s intervention so that the ongoing ban on coal mining in the state could be lifted.

In 2015, the ninth Meghalaya Assembly had unanimously adopted a resolution to urge the Centre to invoke Para 12 A (b) of the Sixth Schedule through a Presidential notification to exempt Meghalaya from the Central laws related to mining which include the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Act, and the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act.