SIVASAGAR, Nov 13: Chitu Baruah said stone and coal mining, whether legal or illegal, should not be allowed, citing the devastating floods of July 19.
“Be it stone mining or coal mining, legal or illegal, it will not be allowed. We are victims of the devastating floods of July 19,” Baruah said.
He said development did not merely mean building roads or flyovers in towns.
True development would be possible only when every family in the country could arrange two meals a day without hardship, he said.
Many families in the Nazira area of Sivasagar were affected by the July 19 floods. Local residents alleged that stone mining along the Dikhow river had worsened the impact of the floods.
