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Worldwide sand mining is a $70 billion industry. [17] The activity is primarily a local operation that is set up close to construction work. India does not have enough legal sand to fill demand. However, the Indian Planning Commission estimates that sand mining constitutes almost 9 percent of the nation's GDP. While sand mining has a high ...
Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a generally unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity. [1] [2] [3] Beach theft is illegal removal of large quantities of sand from a beach leading to full or partial disappearance of the beach. In India ...
The Uttar Pradesh illegal sand mining scam is a political scandal relating to events that occurred in 2012–2017 during the Samajwadi Party (SP) rule. It is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the 2016 orders of Allahabad High Court for allowing illegal mining in 7 districts of Uttar Pradesh – Shamli, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar, Deoria, Kaushambi and ...
Indian miners trapped in illegal ‘rat-hole’ pit for more than three weeks (EPA) These workers are trained in narrow tunnel excavations and use handheld tools for digging through rock.
The mining ministry of the union government has announced a special commission to investigate the various cases of illegal mining in India. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] The union mining minister, B.K. Handique , announced that the investigation spanning Karnataka, Orissa and Jharkhand, will submit a report in 6 months.
It however praised her work in preventing illegal sand mining and ordered both the central and the state government to report how they are tackling illegal mining and what security is being provided to the officers engaged in stopping it. [92] [93] On 8 August, the Supreme Court of India accepted a PIL filed by an advocate M. L. Sharma. The PIL ...
The problem of undercounting resonates in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site of a mammoth debacle that was supposed to transform the World Bank’s approach to development and displacement. In 1985, the bank pledged $450 million to finance the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal, the keystone of an effort to turn the Narmada River into a series of ...
Sand smuggling is the cross-border environmental crime [1] of illegal transportation of often illegally extracted natural sand and gravel. [2] While sand smuggling and illegal mining are global concerns, they are especially acute in Asia, where continuing urbanization and the region’s large construction boom are driving the increasing demand for sand. [3]