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 …
Ongole, Nov. 25: Recently, the mines department in the state discovered enor-mous granite stocks beneath the road between Chimakurthi and Rajupalem-Laksh-mipuram. The department estimates that if the granite is excavated form beneath the road, the government could earn a royalty of at least Rs 500 crore. To take out this …
Ongole, Nov. 25: The global meltdown has badly affected the exports of the world famous galaxy granite from Chimakurthi of Prakasam district. Chimakurthi, located about 25 km from Ongole on the Kurnool Road, is famous for a rare type of black granite which is not found anywhere else in the …
Salem A delegation of the Trinamool Congress met the Tamil Nadu Governor Lt. Surjit Singh Barnala to intervene and stop the Kanchamalai iron ore mining proposals. The Trinamool Congress has launched a state-wide campaign to protect the environment and mineral resources of the State. They have been conducting rally and …
Laiqh A. Khan KOLLEGAL (Chamarajanagar district): After a 16-year lull, the forest areas of Kollegal region on Karnataka's border with Tamil Nadu will begin to resonate with the sound of explosives and the drone of excavators and trucks as quarrying for the valuable black granite is all set to resume. …
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy strongly defended mining leases given for extracting iron ore, bauxite and granite reserves in the State claiming that all these were done in a fair and transparent manner. On a day of high voltage drama in the Assembly, the Telugu Desam Party …
In this piece of work, an attempt has been made to study the noise level of equipment induced sound at some granite quarries in Ganjam dist. and then to study noise induced deafness (NID) among the persons working there as laborers.
The Karnataka government recently signalled its intention to renew granite quarrying licences in the Malai Madeshwara hills in Chamarajnagar district. Quarrying was banned in 1992, when the area was under the sway of Veerappan. But with the sandalwood smuggler out of its way, the state government believes that resumption of …
deepa kozhisseri Bangalore though the menace of the forest brigand Veerappan has ended in Kollegal district of Karnataka, it has exposed the area to another problem, mining, an activity previously checked. The state government had banned mining of black granite in Kollegal in August 1992. It feared the outlaw might …
Jeevan Rekha Parishad a local environment NGO in India came to know of the exploitation of child labor in the stone crushers, iron ore and granite mines of Khurda and Badbil region of Orissa and of their inhuman conditions of life. As this is a serious violation of children
Child labour are working in very large and alarming numbers in the iron-ore and granite mines of Hospet-Bellary region of Karnataka state in direct violation of the constitutional rights of children. Most of the children are migrant labourers. Children are working in highly hazardous and painful conditions in the mines …
