Steelmakers and mine owners, reeling under a ban on mining in Karnataka, are keeping their fingers crossed about the Supreme Court hearing scheduled on Friday.
BellaryThe Bellary district administration, which had intermittently gone to sleep in the last few days despite the Supreme Court ban on mining, seems to be awake and alert now. The officials have now taken some concrete steps to check illegal transportation of iron ore, after huge quantities of it continued to leak through the borders of the dusty, mineral-rich district.
The Supreme Court has been moved for a direction to the Union and Karnataka governments to recover the value of minerals excavated through illegal mining, approximately valued at Rs. 1,50,000 crore, with penalty and interest, from all those indicted by the Lokayukta.
Bangalore : While economical losses due to illegal mining in Bellary is pegged at around Rs 16,000 crore, what is more shocking is the ecological shock that the district has been subjected to.
Yeddyurappa, who has filed the petition in his name, has made the Karnataka Lokayukta the respondent in the matter. He has submitted that the findings by the agency were based on presumption and not on any evidence, for him to be booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Bellary : Three workers, including an assistant manager, died on the spot after inhaling carbon monoxide at the Jindal (JSW) steel factory at Toranagal in Bellary district early Tuesday morning.
Outgoing Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa today moved the Karnataka High Court for quashing the Lokayukta’s report which indicted him in the illegal mining case that eventually cost his job.
Days after the Supreme Court temporarily banned mining in Bellary, the suspended miners want the state’s forest department to share responsibility for the environmental degradation.
