Joint committee inspection report based on the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in the matter of M J Sankar Vs the State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated March 4, 2025. The matter related to illegal mining of granite in quarry land (SF No 745) Nagaojanahalli village, Pochampalli …
The decision of the Ministry of Environment and Forest to declare 60,000 sq km of the Western Ghats, which covers 44 districts in six states, as ecologically sensitive area, has evoked protest from political parties and Syrian Catholic Church in Kerala. While the government has convened an all-party meeting next …
It's the turn of wildlife enthusiasts to worry about granite quarries. Operations at 12 granite quarries in the vicinity of Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) that forms a continuum with the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve are affecting the wildlife in the area as well as villagers, according to them. A panchayat …
In what may scuttle efforts in wildlife conservation, a black granite factory is being built illegally in the K Gudi eco-sensitive zone of the Biligiriranganatha-swamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve. There are already three black granite quarries in the zone. The illegal quarrying is happening on the borders of the wildlife …
The Madras High Court bench here on Wednesday ordered notice to the Public Works Department (PWD), the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Madurai District Collector on a public interest litigation filed alleging that two private granite companies had dumped the waste material from their quarries into several …
UP government is planning to raise a dedicated force to tackle illegal mining in the state. A proposal to this effect has been submitted by the mining department and may be placed before the cabinet very soon. The proposal assumes importance considering the recent suspension of SDMnoidaDurgaShaktiNagpal who was crusading …
The department wants own sleuths to crack down on illegal mining activities, just like transport and excise department have their personnel for such tasks The Uttar Pradesh mining department has proposed to raise its own force to deal with the menace of illegal mining in the state. The department wants …
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (Central Act No. 67 of 1957), the State Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1986, namely:- These rules may be called the …
Rights’ panel order ignored, say environment activists The Chembanmudy Protection Council and the Chembanoly People’s Action Council have strongly condemned the withdrawal of the ban imposed on Manimalethu Granites at Chembanmudy hillock for granite quarrying. In a statement on Friday, action council leaders Bose Vargese Kaithala and Shaji Pathalil said …
The High Court on Friday disposed of a petition for CBI inquiry into illegal granite mining in Bagepalli town of Chikkaballapur district after the government agreed for a probe by the district’s Superintendent of Police (SP). A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice B V Nagarathna …
Consistently clocking negative growth for the past two years, the mining industry now has some good news: this has been the safest period with the number of fatal accidents hitting an all-time low of 112 in 2011 and rising marginally to 116 in 2012. “Mining accidents and fatalities have gone …
Licensed granite miners have extracted more of the scarce natural resource than they should from the government sanctioned quarries in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts in Kerala, according to the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) investigators. The massive fraud, which has caused irreversible environmental damage in vast swathes of hilly land …
Since quarrying resumed after a ban, prices go up by 40% Public protest is mounting against the sky-rocketing price of granite products and the increase in granite quarrying activities in Wayanad district. Though the district administration had banned the functioning of quarries on revenue land for nearly seven months following …
Bangalore: An initiative by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to address the problem posed by slurry waste from granite units at Jigani along Bannerghatta Road has become a boon for garbage contractors. They have got the chance to dump waste on the sly in abandoned quarries of the …
Indefinite relay satyagraha in front of panchayat office A joint action council of environmental activists and people of Kalanjur panchayat, near Pathanapuram, in the district began an indefinite relay Satyagraha in front of the panchayat office on Monday demanding immediate closure of three granite quarries and a manufactured sand plant …
Indefinite relay satyagraha in front of panchayat office A joint action council of environmental activists and people of Kalanjur panchayat, near Pathanapuram, in the district began an indefinite relay Satyagraha in front of the panchayat office on Monday demanding immediate closure of three granite quarries and a manufactured sand plant …
The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday ordered notice, returnable by three weeks, to the State Government seeking its reply to a public interest litigation petition filed by an individual with a plea to establish a special court for exclusive and expeditious trial of a number of criminal cases …
While the government is seeking world heritage status for the Edakkal Caves on the Ambukuthy hills in Wayanad district, famous for its Neolithic petroglyphs, illegal granite quarrying and fast urbanisation in the vicinity of the caves are posing a serious threat to the rock engravings. The government had banned all …
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa said today the government has initiated action to attach properties worth over Rs.9,700 crore in cases of illegal mining of granite in the state and secure early conviction of the accused. " ~ Granite valued at Rs.4,000 crore, that was found to have been …
Jaipur: A division bench of Rajasthan high court on Monday issued notices to the state and Central governments seeking their response to a PIL seeking to nullify the first-come-first-serve rule adopted for allotment of mining leases for precious minor minerals in the state. The order came on a PIL filed …
Stringent action against encroachers District Collector P.G. Thomas has said that a monitoring committee has been constituted as part of the measures aimed at ending unauthorised granite quarrying and sand-mining in the district. He informed this after presiding over a meeting on Friday to discuss the problems posed by such …
