Rampant mining
left high and dry due to rampant sand mining, the tribal people of the Car Nicobar region of Andaman and Nicobar Islands have asked the local administration to clamp down on the activity immediately. The extraction continues unabated in spite of a May 7, 2002, Supreme Court (sc) directive stipulating that commercial sand mining be reduced in the union territory (ut).
On August 17, 2003, the Tribal Council
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