GUWAHATI: Assam government has in an affidavit filed recently before the Gauhati High Court, accepted Justice (Retired) BP Katakey Commission’s report revealing extensive illegal coal mining in the Saleki proposed reserve forest and Tekok open cast during the period 2003-2019 by violating the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
Additional chief secretary to the government of Assam, environment and forest department, Ravi Shankar Prasad held a meeting with officials of the forest department, Assam state biodiversity board, state pollution control board and the geology and mining department regarding the report of the commission alleging illegal coal mining.
