Tony Marak, the principal chief conservator for the Meghalaya Department of Forests and Environment, a state land manager and regulatory agency, was ordered not to oversee the state’s lawless coal fields. “We have been directed by the leaders of this state government not to look at any of this,” he said. “They see it as a matter of survival. They tell us, ‘Don’t touch this.’”

Tony Marak, the principal chief conservator for the Meghalaya Department of Forests and Environment, a state land manager and regulatory agency, was ordered not to oversee the state’s lawless coal fields. “We have been directed by the leaders of this state government not to look at any of this,” he said. “They see it as a matter of survival. They tell us, ‘Don’t touch this.’”

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