Guwahati, May 9 -- According to a recent affidavit filed by the Assam government in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stated that several schools, a road measuring five kilometres, a tea garden, wells and polling stations were found to be constructed within a wildlife sanctuary and nearby forest reserve in the state.

Recently, there was an order passed by the NGT that asked the chief secretary of Assam to file an affidavit giving details of officers who permitted such extensive construction in gross violation of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.

"The affidavit must also explain the inaction of the principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF) under whose very nose such illegal activities were allowed to go on since 2017," the NGT ...