New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Meghalaya government to file an affidavit within two months on the action taken against illegal miners and stone crushers in the state.
A bench comprising Justice Amit Sthalekar and expert member Saibal Dasgupta also constituted a committee and asked it to submit a report on the environmental degradation caused to water bodies in Guwahati as a result of muck disposal from stone crushing quarries in Meghalaya.
The committee comprises senior scientists from the Central Pollution Control Board, Regional Office in Shillong, Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) and a professor from IIT Guwahati, Department of Civil Engineering.
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