The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the project proponent to pay Rs 70 crores within one month to be utilized for the restoration of the environment in relation to stone quarry collapses in Mizoram state where several persons had died.
The NGT initiated this matter after taking note of a media report titled "Stone quarry collapses in Mizoram, 12 feared dead", and to the effect that as a consequence of the collapse of slope in Hnahthial District, Mizoram, 12 people, who were the workers engaged by a private firm, died. The
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that she was "depressed" after knowing about the deaths of workers under the debris of the stone quarry which collapsed at Maudarh village in Mizoram's Hnahthial district on Monday.
The Prime Minister's office (PMO) tweeted, "My thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones due to the tragic stone quarry collapse in Mizoram. An ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh would be given from PMNRF to the next of kin of each deceased. The injured would be given Rs. 50,000."
A total of eight bodies have been recovered so far from the site at Maudarh village in Mizoram's Hnahthial district after a stone quarry collapsed on Monday afternoon.