GUWAHATI: Taking advantage of the long pending inter-State border dispute and the negligence of the Assam government, illegal stone quarries are flourishing along the Assam-Meghalaya border adjacent to Basistha temple, a famous tourism site in Guwahati city. The Baisistha temple is located around 7-km away from Dispur.
Over the last few years, many small to big stone quarries were set up in the Kalachanda area, a ‘disputed stretch’ of the Assam-Meghalaya border. Kalachanda is around 2-km away from the Basistha temple.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/illegal-stone-quarries-flourishing-basistha-area
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/sentinel-guwahati
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/assam
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/meghalaya
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/stone
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/interstate-disputes
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining