The state administration has launched a first-of-its-kind crackdown on illegal transportation of coal across the state after the chief minister instructed the authorities to ensure that Bengal was not used as a corridor for transportation of smuggled coal.
“All vehicles entering the state carrying coal will be checked. The vehicles, which will submit proper papers, will be allowed to enter the state. The system has been put in place to ensure that the state is not used as a corridor for transportation of smuggled coal,” said a senior government official.
Earlier this week, the Asansol-Durgapur police stopped nearly 500 trucks, in three days, carrying coal from neighbouring Jharkhand. The trucks were stopped at the checkpost in Duburdih in West Burdwan’s Kulti on the border of Jharkhand.
