Chennai: Cleaning the deck for the use of river sand in construction after about a decade, the Tamil Nadu government fixes 1,000 per unit as a basic sand, and launched a set of guidelines for supplying sand with “fair and transparent ways”.
To start, the Department of Water Resources allows 16 mining trucks and sand mine 21 Bullock, which has environmental permits (EC), to operate.
After this, as many as 63 mine trucks and eight bull train sand mines, which are in various stages to get EC, will be allowed to operate according to the existing protocol, the order said by Sandeep Saxena, Head of the Supplementary Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources.
Up to a decade ago, the Sand River was the main construction material, but it grew rare about five years ago.
The government to provide priority for online bookings publicly while flowing the Sandromots River aggressively by the state government, M-Sand replaces the sand river which is entirely in recent years.
Orders currently mark the R Eturnof R Sand to the construction sector has occurred amid the allegations of environmental lovers which causes irreplaceable damage to earth and rampant and unscientific exploitation.
Orders instruct authority to give priority to online ordering from the general public for the sand and say there will be realtime monitoring centrally from the sand depot and mine to prevent theft.
“Existing facilities such as IP / CCTV cameras with 24×7 direct streaming and real-time monitoring of all vehicles that envelop with GPS and Geofence prefix will be strengthened in the control room centered in Chennai to prevent theft and monitor excavation activities,” said Saxena.
Only after supplying sand to booking online by the public – between 8am – 2:00 – can order sand at 2PM and 17:00 depending on the availability of the remaining sand, the Order said.
The construction industry was fast to welcome the reopening of the river sand mine, but warned the government to the lawyer.
Indicates that the government now offers cubic feet of Sand ATRS10, the Association of Builders of the State Secretary BC Ramaprabhu said G overnment M Ust ensure that it is available for ordinary people at a nominal price.
“Transportation costs should not exceed 30 tors 30 per cft of sand.
Otherwise, the government’s intent will be defeated,” he said.
While S Sridharan, Chair of the Development of Urban and Housing, National Credi, said the river river developer who was preferred to M-Sand for the purposes of plastering, G Sundarrajan Poovulagin Nanbargal, a voluntary group of environment, said the Shepherd of Divisiveness will explore the technology of the construction sector Natural resources are not exploited.
Illegal smuggling m sand and sand river to neighboring countries M Ust was eradicated, he said.
“If smuggling is limited, around 40% of our natural resources can be saved,” he said.
Sand River Mining Set to Return in Tamil Nadu
