New Delhi: The high-powered team, headed by B N Jha, RCCP North Eastern Regional Office of Environment and Forest, that included several other senior officials, has confirmed that Lafarge has been following high standards of environmental compliance. Earlier, Shella Action Committee, a conglomerate of traditional village bodies, had charged French major of mining limestone in forest areas of Meghalaya and that an environmental clearance was obtained fraudulently. The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) report documents the strong support of the local population of both the Shella and Nongtrai Dorbars for the project. "The impact of mining on Nongtrai and Shella was found very positive and beneficial to the residents due to huge amount of cash going to villages,