JAJPUR: The Steel and Mines department on Thursday carried out extensive raids on black stone quarries located in Dharmasala block of Jajpur district. The raids were conducted following allegations of massive irregularities in mining operations in Dharmasala during the BJD government levelled by Dharmasala MLA Himanshu Sekhar Sahoo. A team of the department led by joint director of mines Nirmalendu …
THENI : Tamil Nadu Environmental Protection Movement Coordinator RS Mukilan condemned District Collector RV Shajeevana for failing to prevent DMK cadres from intervening during a public opinion meeting on the leasing of six stone quarries in the district. In a statement released on Wednesday, Mukilan said that the public opinion meeting on leasing the six quarries located in Kamayakavundanpatti was …
Chennai: Chief Minister M K Stalin announced a new policy to regulate the production of M-sand, which has emerged as a viable and more robust alternative to the river sand in the construction industry, by encouraging the rough stone quarries to produce M-sand by invoking laws relating to the environment and land use. Since excessive mining of river sand and …
