In a complete disregard for the rare minerals, Rajasthan government has leased mining blocks that contains copper, silver and tin for extracting masonry stones and construction materials. Despite reminders from the central government agencies, mines department has taken no action resulting into a loss of revenues and wastage of national …
Aizawl: Mizoram Geology and Mining Minister S Hiato has alleged the illegal stone quarry near Keifang village was reason behind the massive rockslide at the Aizawl-Champhai road in eastern Mizoram that killed 18 people on July 21. A bus was travelling from Champhai town to Aizawl. It had almost reached …
JAIPUR: Just five days after a labourer was killed and several others had a narrow escape in Harmara area, villagers alleged that unsafe mining practices have resumed in over 50 licensed stone mines in the area. They said that though only a couple of mines have permission to use explosives, …
It seems the state government and the police have met a dead end when it comes to curbing illegal mining. At one level, labourers are getting killed due to poor safety standards or mine collapses. At another level, when the police are asked to pull up socks against the mafia, …
The Assam Forest Department’s impunity seems to have no limits. legal edicts are inconsequential to its working. Barely two weeks after TEHELKA exposed the stone quarrying and crushing in the No-Development Zone (NDZ) around the kaziranga National Park (Where The Wild Things Were, 12 May 2012), another shocker in the …
JAIPUR: A division bench of Rajasthan high court has observed that the mining mafia is at its peak in the state and there is no effort to check them. The court made this remark while hearing a PIL filed by a Bharatpur-based advocate. The petitioner, Battu Singh, has moved the …
Illegal stone quarrying near Almatti can have disastrous consequences, fear greens. Stone quarrying goes on unhindered on the banks of River Krishna, even as locals allege that officials of Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam Limited (KBJNL) are turning a blind eye to the illegality. The national river policy stipulates that stone …
JAIPUR/ALWAR: At least six labourers died while a few others were feared trapped under debris in two mining mishaps in Alwar and Rajsamand districts on Thursday. While the mishap in Alwar's Bhiwadi area took place in an illegal stone mine, where three labourers died, in Rajsamand's Kelwa region, three were …
ALWAR: Illegal mining on Aravali hills has not only raised environmental concerns, but also resulted in huge loss of human lives in the state. As per the records made public in the state assembly recently, 40 people have lost their lives due to illegal mining in Mewat's Alwar region over …
The famed Kaziranga National Park in Assam finds itself in an interesting quandary, where human livelihood clashes with animal habitat. A petition filed in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by RTI and environmental activist Rohit Choudhury on 17 December 2011 alleged that the Assam government had wrongly issued permits to …
Blocked wildlife corridors across the Kosi river. Now a rash of private properties inside the tiger reserve itself. Jay Mazoomdaar exposes a scandal that could ruin one of the country’s most precious forests 1. The Rush For Green Gold Every bit of inhabitable land along the 17-km stretch of the …
Land alloted for National Games, Portuguese Commonwealth Games used for illegal mining Several trucks and machinery were confiscated at the land acquired by Goa government to set up a sports city here for National Games 2014, busting an illegal mining racket on government land, police said. Goa police raided the …
PANJIM: The land acquired by state government for sports city in Pernem, which has been kept idle since 2009, has become a target of rogues indulging in the illegal mining activity. A raid conducted by Directorate of Mines and Geology following complaint by locals on Monday have noticed that laterite …
Several reports have pointed to rampant mining in Madhya Pradesh, but the state government is yet to wake up. Abhishek Bhalla tracks the unchecked plunder. On 8 MARCH, 30-year-old IPS Officer Narendra Kumar Singh lost his life taking on the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh. Two days later, there was …
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has sought a report from the Ministry of Environment and Forest on industrial units functioning in the vicinity of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Asking the ministry to conduct a survey in the park’s vicinity, the Tribunal also expressed its displeasure on the …
In the backdrop of recent murder of an IPS officer, allegedly by a mining mafia member in Madhya Pradesh, a woman revenue officer escaped from meeting a similar fate by a whisker when she tried to put a leash on illegal excavation of stones at Kusumania village in the district, …
Leaseholders to submit papers on lease, fencing of lease areas, daily reports on transportation In a bid to regulate iron ore extraction and transportation by the private sector in Goa, the Directorate of Mines and Geology on Monday issued two orders, directing all leaseholders to submit daily reports on transportation …
State’s Tall Claims To Check Illegal Practices Fall Flat Once Again Alwar: Two labourers were buried alive in an illegal mine after stones came crashing on them during an explosion in Alwar’s Tapukara police station area on Tuesday night. As the police and rescue workers could not take the bodies …
Reckless stone quarrying in eight sites within the limits of Malemahadeshwara and Edeyarahalli reserve forests in Kollegal taluk in the district, is posing a threat to the elephant corridor that falls within its boundaries. Wild elephants found in the Biligiriranganathaswamy Tiger Reserve Forest in Chamarajnagar district. Sub-section 2 of Section …
Petitioner says quarrying is being carried out on a portion of land given to NICE for BMIC project The Karnataka High Court on Monday asked the State government to file a status report on the complaint that stone quarrying activities are going on on a portion of land, which was …
The ministry of environment and the state government of Assam have been rapped on their knuckles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for their failure to stop the stone crushing units operating around the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve and in the Karbi-Anglong Elephant Reserve. The NGT had asked …
