DAWKI

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• Green activists said the National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) took advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to chop the pine trees locals were attached to.
  
  
• But the government swung into action on June 23 after photos and videos of the logs lying beside the road from the town’s Rilbong Bridge to Upper Shillong went viral.
  
  
• This stretch of the road is part of the 71 km Shillong-Dawki four-lane project estimated to cost ₹1,251 crore.
  
  
• Dawki, a town in West Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya, is a trade point on the border with Bangladesh.