This report provides an overall view of Stone Crushers operating in India to develop the National Environmental Standards, to provide cleaner technologies and to specify Guidelines / Code of Practice for Pollution Prevention & Control.
Tirunelveli,
RESIDENTS of Seliyanallur panchayat under Manoor Panchayat Union are living in a state of fear as the shock waves triggered by the explosives, being used in a private stone quarry functioning in the panchayat area, have been giving them sleepless nights for the past several months.
The High Court has issued an injunction against mining at Chikkanayakanahalli forest area in Tumkur district.
Hearing a public interest litigation by Basavaraj C S and six others, residents of Hosabeedi Chikka nayakanahalli, the division bench comprising Chief Justice P D Dinakaran and Justice V G Sabhahit, issued this injunction.
Chennai The Madras High Court has directed the Pollution Control Board (PCB) to issue notice to the stone crusher units in the cluster areas in Tirusoolam and Pallavaram near Chennai asking why their units should not be closed down if operated without the consent of the PCB and without complying with the norms laid down by the NEERI, irrespective of their distance from the residential area.
Hundreds of migrant adivasis from Madhya Pradesh have died from acute silicosis (caused by inhaling silica) contracted while working in quartz crushing factories in central Gujarat. Thousands more face the same fate.
Even as the Goa Pollution Control Board has de-sealed 29 stone crushers at the Sao Jose de Areal belt, local residents have demanded strict monitoring of the dust pollution before any permission is granted for the crushers to re-commence full-fledged operations.
ONE month is all a government department gets to furnish information under the right to information (RTI) Act. Instead, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has allegedly used that period to persuade an applicant to withdraw his petition. On March 19 this year, S Samayan of T Kallupatti natural resource protection committee filed an RTI application seeking information on stone crushers in Kilankulam, Vannivelanpatti and Ammapatti panchayats at T Kallupatti in Madurai.
In this piece of work, an attempt has been made to study the noise level of equipment induced sound at some granite quarries in Ganjam dist. and then to study noise induced deafness (NID) among the persons working there as laborers.
While mining continues to exploit mineral-rich areas and impoverish their people, a government panel ignores these costs to focus on fast-tracking private investment in the sector. By Chandra Bhushan
Quarry dust is known to alter the stomatal index of most of the plants studies. But in some plants the stomatal index remains unaffected or undergo little changes. Study carried out on selected plant species growing in the vicinity revealed foliar epidermal responses to quarry dust pollution which differed from species to species.
By Chandra Bhushan
