SRINAGAR : Security forces burst teargas shells and resort to lathicharge to disperse demonstrators, protesting against the government order, banning quarry in Mansbal area in the central Kashmir district of Ganderbal.
Official sources said the district administration has recently banned quarrying in tourist resort Manasbal area in Ganderbal district, leaving hundreds of families jobless. Today hundreds of people, mostly women blocked the main road, protesting against the banning of quarrying. Raising anti-government slogans, the demonstrators claimed that they are working on these quarries for more than a century.
We were rendered jobless and our children are facing starvation, they said, adding let government first make any alternative arrangement for our earning before banning the quarrying. However, when the protestors refused to leave, security forces resorted to lathicharge which had almost no impact, they said, adding later police burst teargas shells to disperse them.
Senior police and civil officials have rushed to the spot to pacify the agitators, who are demanding justice. Panic gripped among the students of different educational institutions who had come for a picnic to Manasbal from different parts of the valley. (AGENCIES)
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