Editor,
The community in around Sutnga Elaka has for the first time realised that too much of everything is bad for the physical and mental well-being of all and which is why they had to stage a protest against the action and willful omission and commission of the State government authorities in allowing mushrooming coke plants to be set up in the area.
According to sources, some of these coke factories are backed by politicians in the ruling MDA Government which is no surprise at all for some of them to speak on the same wavelength just like those who have committed this blunder on the fragile ecosystem.
The State government especially politicians love to talk of climate change, global environment, protection etc. But when their words and actions do not match it is akin to putting the horse before the cart.
The areas around East Jaintia hills district where rampant coal mining, illegal coke plants and mushrooming cement plants all in the name of so-called development without the real benefits trickling down to the poorest of the poor.
Now that things have taken a turn for the worst, it is appreciated that people of the local villages have rightfully and democratically expressed their constitutional rights.
