Pink Sand Stone

Rajasthan government has planned to clear a forest section of the Band Baretha wildlife sanctuary to extract pink sandstone for building Ram temple at Ayodhya. Reportedly, the state has declared the extraction as "highest priority". Permission for the same has been sought under the Forest and Wildlife Acts. The temple authorities have already stocked 1.1 lakh ft³ of pink sandstone. However, they require another four lakh ft^{3… read-more}