Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of State of Uttar Pradesh & Others Vs Gaurav Kumar & Others dated 08/05/2025. The bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Manoj Misra categorically stated that the Supreme Court "upholds the law and the regulations governing sand mining, demanding zero …
Mumbai: A representative from the union environment ministry and a divisional forest officer will now be part of a committee set up by the state government to issue licenses for sand mining for clearing navigation channels. This is being done on the directives of the Bombay high court. The order …
Sand & Stones Worth `6cr Are Moved Daily Along a massive 400-sq km belt, considered to be BSP legislator Md Iqbal's “empire“ -the man is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly amassing unaccounted wealth to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore -one just sees rows and rows of …
Several stringent measures kept to check impact on environ *MoEF clearance, Mining Plan made essential In order to check reckless mining in various rivers and water bodies, which is causing adverse impact on the environment, the State Government has finally come up with Minor Mineral Concession, Storage, Transportation of Minerals …
Irregularities in storage of minerals in Srikakulam. Visakhapatnam: The Public Accounts Committee of the AP Legislative Assembly has exposed the illegal beach sand mining taking place in Srikakulam district, which is being said to be a scam running into thousands of crores of rupees. Trimax Sands has been violating norms …
Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of Sukumar Vs District Collector, Cuddalore District & Others dated 10/02/2016 regarding sand quarrying of river Thenpennai, Kandarakottai Village, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu. The miners are drawing the sand from the entire river and selling the same and are transporting the …
Perturbed over illegal sand mining on Yamuna floodplains despite a ban, the National Green Tribunal has asked the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments to apprise it about the action they have taken against the violators. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the officers of Haryana and …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Souuthern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Southern Region Mines and Mineral based Workers Welfare Association Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change dated 08/02/2016 regarding manual mining of beach sand minerals as against mechanized mining. NGT asks Ministry of Environment, Forests and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Niranjan Sharma & Others Vs Ministry of Environment, Forest & Others dated 05/02/2016 regarding sand mining operation in the State of Jharkhand. Tribunal passed an order of injunction restraining operation of sand mining of any nature …
The National Green Tribunal has summoned officials of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana government for their failure to curb illegal sand mining on the floodplains of river Yamuna, already banned by the green panel. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed all concerned officers of Haryana and UP, …
BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed commission of advocates has found illegal sand mining taking place in the submergence area of Sardar Sarovar Project in four districts of Madhya Pradesh. The commission submitted its report before the tribunal on Wednesday. NGT appointed commission of two advocates, Ajay Gupta and Dharmveer …
Cashing in on scarcity and the high price of river sand in the open market, illegal sand-mining gangs have turned their attention to the interior coastal areas of Kozhikode to dig up salty sand and supply it to the construction industry. Though civil engineers attest that sea sand is highly …
It is on plea of Dinesh Pandey , environment activist, that the NGT has taken stringent action of banning the mining activity on Gaula river on January 29. He told TOI, " I appealed NGT to stay the operation of forest clearance accorded by the order 24 January, 2013 for …
Rampant sand mining activity on Cheyyar river bed has rendered the twin water channels, created 120 years ago near Kavanthandalam, useless. The two channels — ‘pallakalvai’ (lower channel) and ‘mettukalvai’ (upper channel) — residents of this village said, used to bring the much-needed water for irrigation in and around Kavanthandalam …
District Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority constituted to grant EC for mining of minor minerals PANJIM: The District Collector is now the statutory authority to grant prior environmental clearance (EC) to undertake sand mining or mining of any minor minerals in the State. The powers to grant ECs for such …
According to data from the union environment ministry and Solapur district administration, there was a massive revenue increase of Rs.50 crores in the 2013-14 financial year due to e-auctioning, spike in fines and fool proof monitoring. Three years after the apex court ordered Centre to formulate fresh guidelines on mining …
Smugglers are extracting sand illegally at various places. Karimnagar: The concerned authorities are not quarrying the sand in Manair river, fearing plunging groundwater table. Smugglers are illegally extracting the sand at various places in the river for making huge profits using short cuts. Consequently, the groundwater level is likely to …
Though the protest on ban on mining in Gaula river by NGT has begun in by the affected groups in Haldwani, the Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation deny from any such ban in place. Dinesh Pandey, the environment activist, had made the plea before NGT to quash the Forest Clearance accorded …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mushtakeem Vs. MoEF & CC & Ors dated 28/01/2016 regarding sand mining in Districts Shamli and Muzzafnagar of State of Uttar Pradesh and District Karnal in State of Haryana. The State of Uttar Pradesh and State of Haryana shall file …
Post-September 2014 floods, illegal sand and gravel mining from the Tawi is going on while the Flood Control, Geology and Mining Departments are not doing anything to stop the practice. Every day hundreds of tractor-trailers and tippers are seen extracting sand and gravel from the riverbed. Sources in the Flood …
The irate residents of village Bhagtali situated on the bank of river Ravi today staged protest demonstration against the administration for allowing mining in Ravi river due to which the water level in the area has depleted. The protest was led by Dwarika Nath and Saraswati Devi. The protestors raising …
