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Attorney general G E Vahanvati cited several reasons — from straining of bilateral relationship, breach of solemn guarantee by India for uninterrupted supply of raw material to the cement plant, to India losing face in the international community — to drive home the gravity of the situation before the Forest Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices S H Kapadia and Aftab Alam.
But amicus curiae Harish Salve said that though he understood the problem being faced by the AG, the court could not be a party to a situation where the raw material was being mined in contravention of forest conservation law and where the profits of the mined produce was being enjoyed by a multinational company, Lafarge.
Taking cue from a tribal welfare body which has alleged that the land leased for mining was transferred in breach of rules, Salve further said the government should consider putting the entire profit earned from such supply of raw material to Bangladesh to build a fund that would be used for the welfare of the natives.
Vahanvati immediately agreed to consider the proposal and get back to the court with a response from the government on Monday, when it would be heard again.
The SC’s February 5 order turning off supply of limestone from the mines in East Khasi Hills district in Meghalaya to French cement giant Lafarge’s $255 million cement plant in Bangladesh had put India in a piquant diplomatic situation with Dhaka and Paris.
Lafarge Umuiam Mining Pvt Ltd (LUMPL) was mining the limestone quarry area spread over 100 hectares near Indo-Bangladesh border for supply of raw material to Lafarge Surma Cement Project at Chhatak in Sunamganj.
Lafarge and Spanish cement producer Cementos Mollins had set up the state-of-the-art fully integrated cement plant at Chhatak with a captive power plant of 300 mw. In 2001, the Bangladeshi high commissioner and then Indian foreign secretary Lalit Mansingh had signed an agreement for uninterrupted supply of raw material to the plant from the mines in Meghalaya.
The lot of the minorities in Mizoram is better than that of those in other states, including neighboring Manipur where the minorities are being discriminated," Sangliana told reporters.
He said all states should have minority commissions to protect the rights of the minorities in their respective states and the Mizoram government would also have to constitute such a commission.
During his visit to Mizoram, he met representatives of different minority communities like the Chakmas and the Brus and others and also held discussions with state home minister R Lalzirliana, senior government officials and major NGOs.
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The discovery was documented and published by the international scientific journal, Zootaxa, in its last issue published on Tuesday.
H T Lalremsanga, Asst Professor, Department of Zoology, Mizoram University and Saipari Sailo, research scholar, department of Zoology, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong and their associates took credit for the discovery.
The newly-discovered frog species was named 'Leptotalax Tamdil".
The discovery was the result of research work at Tamdil lake, one of the 94 National Wetland Areas in the country, for over a decade.
A government spokesman said floodwaters of Singora, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, entered Naoboicha area.
“There has been a breach of about 20 meters in an embankment. That led to floodwaters entering human settlements in about 10 villages,” a district official said.
This is the first wave of floods in Assam this year.
“So far there are no reports of people displaced. Measures are being taken to plug the breaches,” the official said.
“We have sounded a maximum alert and have kept disaster management teams on standby,” the official added.
The 2,906 km long Brahmaputra is one of Asia’s largest rivers. It covers its first stretch of 1,625 km in Tibet, the next 918 km in India and the remaining 363 km through Bangladesh before flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
Every year, floods in Assam leave a trail of destruction, washing away villages, submerging paddy fields and drowning livestock, besides causing loss of human life and property.
