Himanta defends move to limit eco-sensitive zone around Kaziranga to 1 km
India, Aug. 17 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday, August 17 defended his government's move to approach the Centre for notifying a one-km radius around the Kaziranga National Park as an eco-sensitive zone. He maintained that the government was well within the Supreme Court's directives in this regard and said that notifying up to a 10 kms radius as an eco-sensitive zone, as demanded by several opposition parties, will make survival for the locals untenable. "If the eco-sensitive zone is till Bokakhat or Kaliabor, how will the people survive? The local people themselves have a case before the Supreme Court against any such notification," Sarma said at a press conference, when asked about an ongoing controversy over demar...
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