The ministry of environment and the state government of Assam have been rapped on their knuckles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for their failure to stop the stone crushing units operating around the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve and in the Karbi-Anglong Elephant Reserve.

The NGT had asked both the state government and the ministry to respond to this unregulated quarrying taking place in the crucial “No Development Zone” (NDZ) especially since wildlife specialists had warned that this activity was adversely affecting the wildlife in the reserve.