Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has directed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to formulate a policy for regulation of quarry business and crushing of stones with observation that the state government cannot control the activity.
Acting on a PIL filed by farmers from Sabarkantha district of north Gujarat, a bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala ruled that stone crushers should not be allowed to operate within one kilometre radius from a residential colony.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/make-policy-control-stone-crushers-high-court
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/times-india-ahmedabad
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/state-pollution-control-board-spcb-0
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-interest-litigation-pil
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/high-court
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gujarat
