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Sand mining to resume after opinion from environment panel [1]

Monitoring committee scheduled to meet next week

Sand mining in the Moovattupuzha and the Periyar rivers, banned by the district administration this week, will resume only after the State-level environmental monitoring committee studies the results of the sand auditing of these rivers.

Publication Date: 
23/01/2014
K.A. Martin [2]
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram) [3]
Tags:
Kerala [4], Periyar [5], Mining [6], Sand [7], National Green Tribunal (NGT) [8], Mines Act 1957 [9], Environmentalists [10]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-thiruvananthapuram
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/periyar
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/national-green-tribunal-ngt
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mines-act-1957
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmentalists