Mining leases for Blocks I, III, V, and VII were granted originally to Kerala State Industries Development Corporation (KSDIC) and were subsequently given to Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML), a public sector unit under the Government of Kerala, in 1972. Subsequently, the minings leases have been renewed periodically.
Illegal sand mining driven by a post-pandemic surge in infrastructure spending risks causing degradation to some of the world's most vulnerable lakes and rivers, environmental researchers have ...
Even under controlled circumstances, the practice of extracting the sand from the riverbed and -banks impacts the environment. Unfortunately, many countries lack sand mining regulation policies and in combination with a high demand, this results in indiscriminate and illegal mining.
Recent reports released by South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers, and People indicate that more than 190 people were killed in India in two years due to the activities …
¬Mining of sand is rampant in many rivers of India. With the construction boom fuelling the demand, weak governance and widespread corruption are facilitating uncontrolled and illegal mining of ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh within six weeks on a plea seeking …
MADURAI: The Madras high court on Tuesday granted bail to a bishop and five priests from Kerala who were arrested by CB-CID officials in Tamil Nadu in.
It was illegal to mine these rare earth heavy minerals until recently; the only entity allowed to do so was the government-owned Indian Rare Earths Limited (IERL). In October 1998, the government of India opened sand mining to private companies. This would be done on the basis of two licenses, one to mine the sand and another to handle …
This gap formed the foundation of this study to gain an understanding of the state of sand mining in Kerala state in India, the resource nexus perspectives of sand mining, the existing pathways ...
Read about the latest updates on the removal of mineral sand from Thottappally Spillway mouth in Alappuzha. HC instructs the government to respond to the petition filed by Shone George.
The guidelines also push for online sales and purchase of sand and other riverbed materials to make the process transparent. They propose night surveillance of mining activity through night-vision drones.
Sand mining, Alappuzha, Kerala State, India. Photo source: ©© Christopher Macsurak. Excerpts; Despite the police ban on the sand mining at Andhakaranazhi beach, local people are still illegally collecting sand from the beach, which is a famed tourist destination of Alappuzha.
Sand Auditing is the process that evaluates the health status of rivers subjected to sand mining. This study reviews the river sand audit methodology applied in Kerala, India, from 2011 to 2019 in ...
India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took strong note of rampant illegal sand mining in Rajasthan and directed the state government, its collecto.
The Kerala State Government has banned sand mining in 6 rivers for the next three years.
The National Green Tribunal today extended the order to beach sand mining in Kerala and Tamil Nadu and asked both these coastal states along with others to tell it within two weeks as to why did ...
It has to be made a high-risk venture for those involved in illegal mining to control this," Misra told Mongabay-India. Protect the rivers from illegal sand mining. The main sources of sand in India are considered to be rivers (riverbed and flood plain), lakes and reservoirs, agricultural fields, coastal/marine sand and manufactured sand.
With the coastal city of Kozhikode's construction sector flourishing, illegal sand mining and misuse of sand passes have spawned a multi-crore business, setting off a range of social, legal and environmental issues.
MINERAL SAND The Heavy Mineral Sand deposits in Kerala contain an assemblage of Ilmenite, Rutile, Leucoxene, Monazite, Zircon and Sillimanite. The State possesses one of the world class deposits of mineral sands in the …
Economic Analysis Of Sand Mining In Bharathapuzha River, Kerala, India Moinak Maiti MBA Banking Technology, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, India ... Bharathapuzha River course in Kerala State Result And Discussions ... This uncontrolled and illegal sand mining leads to the degradation of the environment.
In order to add evidence to such a proposed framework our paper assesses sand mining in Kerala, India. This case is relevant because sand mining bans have proliferated illegal sand mining and the emergence of sand mafias increasing ecosystem damage and livelihood vulnerabilities in the BE zones (Mahadevan, 2019, Pathania and …
The sand is now being sold in Kerala at Rs 2,000 a tonne; market rate in the state is Rs 2,500 a tonne. ... says illegal sand mining cost the state exchequer of Uttar Pradesh a massive Rs 477 crore in 2015-16. Kerala lost Rs 1.63 crore in 2014, says the 2014 CAG report. ... India can rely on sand imports till the time it is viable, but it …
India News: Efforts continued to look for children who were travelling on boat that capsized in a river in Kerala's Ernakulam district.
Kochi, Aug 14 The Kerala High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to respond to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding the alleged illegal mining of beach sand minerals from Thottappally …
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala has raised the fine for illegal sand mining from rivers to Rs 5 lakh. It was Rs 25,000 earlier. Governor Arif Mohammed Khan signed the …
Moreover, Section 23C of the MMDR Act, empowers the State Governments / U.T Administrations to make rules for preventing illegal mining, transportation and …
Kerala - the God's own country is in strong grip of unsustainable sand mining which has been happening for decades in the rivers and coastal areas of the state. The state has suffered hugely in 2004 Tsunami and 2018 Floods which, as several reports explain, were aggravated by illegal sand extraction. Yet nothing seems to…
Illegal sand mining in India, governed by Sections 378 and 379 of the Penal Code, poses severe environmental and social consequences.
35 million people.1 Given the dizzying rate of India's construction boom, guesstimates indicate a massive shortage of licitly mined sand. This paper looks at patterns of sand mining in India and the impact that it may have on governance, security, the environment and the growth of entrenched criminal networks.
Providing an account of the rivers of North India affected by sand mining Rawat highlighted the murky situation of illegal sand mining, corruption, rampant nexus between politicians-officials-sand miners, and numerous cases of violence and death.
The sand mining done by two government companies - Indian Rare Earth Ltd owned by the Central government and the Kerala State Metals and Minerals Ltd., by the state, has reduced the coastline and ...
NDTV investigates illegal sand mining along Kerala's coastline and the political official nexus behind it, as the state is robbed of its beaches.
With soaring construction activity and limited availability of sand, Kerala is all set to provide a boom time for sand miners in Karnataka.
The existing provision is to sell the seized sand to the Kalavara store run by the Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra, as per the rate fixed by the Public Works Department.
Save Alappad, Stop Sand Mining, Kerala, India. Save Alappad, Stop Mining is a protest by the people of Alappad fighting against the decades-long mining practices …
And it's not just Kerala. Almost each of India's 400-plus rivers is in the grip of the sand mining mafia.
Governments come and go, but some irregularities last forever. And that is the theme of amicus curiae V. Suresh's comprehensive report on illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu, submitted to ...
Of Geography, University College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India) Abstract:Indiscriminate sand mining can lead to the degradation of riverine environment. The study conducted in the Neyyar river basin shows that indiscriminate and illegal sand mining has created many problems in the environmental setting and water quality of the river basin.
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