Application of the National Green Tribunal Bar Association on rampant illegal sand mining in the Yamuna riverbed, without prior Environment Clearance, August 2013.
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has restrained any person, company, authority to carry out any mining activity or removal of sand, from river beds anywhere in the country without obtaining Environmental Clearance. Read full text of the order.dated 5 August 2013.
While the controversy over the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal — who took on the sand mafia in Greater Noida — still brews, Noida police continue the crackdown in her absence.
The Cabinet today gave nod to the new policy for scientific exploitation of minor minerals, short-term permits to private land owners, regulate use of machinery deployed for mining and providing re
कहने के लिए बरसात में ख्रनन बंद रहता है, मगर रेत-बजरी लदी गाड़ियों का रेला इस नियम को सरेआम झुठला रहा है। खनन माफिया बेखौफ नदियों का सीना चीर रहे हैं, भोर होने से लेकर अंधेरा घिर आने तक। ट्रैक्टर-ट्
The department wants own sleuths to crack down on illegal mining activities, just like transport and excise department have their personnel for such tasks
A mud track was laid inside the dam catchment area
Green activists are sore over the laying of a mud track within the Gunderipallam dam catchment area along the Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger Reserve and reports of rampant illegal sand mining.
Amritsar, July 29: Despite directions from the Punjab and Haryana High Court to check the menace, illegal sand mining continues unabated in Ajnala sub-division of the district.
The Goa construction industry can breathe a sigh of relief, as legal sand extraction is likely to start by the end of the monsoon after a prolonged drought of two years.
A few days before six members of the environment committee quit, they had made proposals to standardize guidelines for mining and quarrying, before they get environment clearance.
