New Delhi: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has served a closure notice to a limestone mine in Meghalaya that is run by the world's largest cement manufacturer, Lafarge.
Incidentally, CNN-IBN exposed how the cement factory located in Cherapunjee was flouting all environment laws misbalancing the state’s ecology in a special report aired on Thursday.
Once famous as the wettest place on earth, giant waterfalls and vast contiguous stretches of India's best forests, Cherapunjee is not an easy place to reach.
But Lafarge, the world's largest cement manufacturer, has and is allegedly flouting environmental laws.
Lafarge has set up a plant worth $225 million to extract limestone, which will be transported on a 17-km long conveyor belt to a factory on the border with Bangladesh.
Lafarge obtained permission to mine in the forests based on Delhi-based company Environment Resource Management Ltd’s environment impact assessment (EIA) report.
CNN-IBN has found that the EIA report is misleading. Lafarge’s conveyor passes through dense forest, which the report describes as agriculture land and the 100-acre plant site land as rocky and barren.
Local Forest Department officer B N Jha accused the company of violating the country’s environment laws.
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