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Illegal mining, impatient mafia and ill-treated administrators [1]

As the construction sector grows, illegal sand and granite mining can only be expected to increase. From what can be seen until now, honest officers who have taken action against the sand mafia in their respective districts in different states have either been transferred or suspended. The politician-sand mafia nexus must be broken in order to protect the environment and prevent huge revenue loss.

Publication Date: 
07/12/2013
S Rajendran [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
48
49
Tags:
Mining [4], Construction Industry [5], Building Materials [6], Sand [7], Granite [8], Politics [9], India [10], Corruption [11], Groundwater [12], Floods [13], Rivers [14], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [15], Supreme Court [16], Uttar Pradesh [17], Tamil Nadu [18]
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