The residents allege that several people of the area received multiple splinter injuries during the frequent gelatin blasts carried out by these stone quarries to smash the hard rocks
GUWAHATI: The setting up of illegal stone quarries along the ‘disputed’ stretch of the Assam-Meghalaya border has resulted in large-scale cutting of hills and wanton deforestation in the inter-State border areas located in the Assam side.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/illegal-stone-quarries-destroying-hills-forest-cover
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/sentinel-guwahati
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dibrugarh-d
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/stone
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/meghalaya
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/assam
