14 sand-laden trucks seized, one accused manages to escape

At least 13 persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in illegal mining from the Sutlej basin in the district during the past 24 hours. The police have seized 14 trucks laden with sand from their possession. One of the accused has absconded.

Sand mining mafias are not deterred by the raids and continue to carry on nonchalantly with illegal mining in Tapi riverbed in Surat district.

Continued illegal mining in the Chaki river along the Punjab-Himachal border is threatening national and state infrastructure, including railway bridges, roads and water supply schemes.

Once dominated by agriculture and horticulture, the villages in the panchayat of Mencurem and Dumaxem are today facing a threat from sand mining activities, say some of the 1,411 residents.

After a brief lull, quarrying of river sand commenced in five places on Monday, taking the total number of re-opened sand quarries to 12.

On Wednesday last, seven quarries resumed operations. Of the 12 functioning quarries, five are on the Coleroon river (two each in Thanjavur and Nagapattinam districts and one in Ariyalur); five on the Cauvery (four in Karur and one in Tiruchi) and two on the Gundar (both in Virudhunagar), according to officials of the Public Works Department (PWD).

For motorists, the trials of traversing the small stretch of Chengalpattu-Kancheepuram Road, near Pazhayaseevaram, during the ongoing sugarcane crushing season seem to have reduced considerably thi

The Karnataka on Thursday decided to bring in comprehensive amendments to the mineral concession rules pertaining to sand with the larger aim of checkmating the sand mafia and preventing illegal ex

Experts Feel That Govt Needs A Policy Framework To Curb Rampant Illegal Sand Mining & Chart Regulated Mining Process

The row over mineral sand mining between the public, private sector industries and the environmental groups illustrates the lack of a proper state-level policy on sand mining and experts say that an effective mineral sand mining policy is necessary to curb illegal sand mining.