Illegal sand mining in process on river beds in Kerala

Описание: The rivers in Kerala are densely populated with sand miners. The indiscriminate removal of sand led to the creation of more stringent laws, but large amounts of sand are still smuggled. Thieves stealing sand from river beds and banks to feed construction boom has once again become rampant in the district, threatening the existence of rivers.

The Kerala River Bank Protection and Regulation of Sand Mining Act, 2001, mandates sand audit every three years. However in the last 13 years since the Act came in to force, the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) had conducted only two audits in the State - of Periyar in Ernakulam and Manimala flowing through Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts. Sand audit is now due in Ernakulam district.

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