No mining, permanent structures within 1-km radius of national parks, wildlife sanctuaries: SC
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SC ordered that mining within the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries shall not be permitted. The top court also directed that each protected forest, that is a national park or wildlife sanctuary, must have an eco-sensitive zone of a minimum of one kilometre measured from the demarcated boundary of such protected forest in which the activities proscribed and prescribed in the Guidelines of February 9, 2011, shall be strictly adhered to.