Stone businessmen, workers block Sylhet-Jaflong road demanding reopening of quarry
Stone businessmen and workers yesterday blocked Sylhet-Jaflong road in Naljuri for three hours demanding that the stone quarry be reopened soon.
Stone extraction at Jaflong quarry was stopped following a High Court order on November 22 last year as unplanned stone extracting using excavators and other unfair means was destroying the ecology of the famous hill station area.
As per the demonstrators, there are around one lakh people depending on stone extracting, storing and transporting are now struggling to survive.
They freed the road after Goainghat police, on behalf of the deputy commissioner of Sylhet and UNO of Goainghat, assured them of taking adequate measures.
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