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As portion of the State-wide inaugural to combat amerciable mining successful quarries operating with and without permits, a crackdown connected quarries for extractive mining implicit and supra the permissible limits is nether mode successful Krishnagiri district.
As portion of the workout ordered by the State government, the territory medication has accrued its surveillance connected quarries.
Five mean chromatic quarries and 2 granite quarries were temporarily sealed implicit amerciable mining nether the orders of Krishnagiri Collector C. Dinesh Kumar here. In addition, implicit 95 vehicles were impounded jointly by the Police, Revenue and Mines officials for amerciable mining and transport/smuggling of minerals. This included 56 vehicles seized by the Department of Mines since January 2026 until May.
The Collector chaired a reappraisal gathering astatine the Krishnagiri Collectorate to measure the enactment taken connected amerciable mining. Line Department officials were instructed to instrumentality enactment connected quarries operating without permits, operating agelong aft the expiry of the lease period, operating without biology clearances, crushers operating without Pollution Control Board permits and without warehouses, among different criteria.
Officials were besides directed to beryllium vigilant and instrumentality punitive enactment connected vehicles transporting mined minerals aggregate times with a azygous transit permits. Quarries that divert usage of explosives for quarries oregon lacking successful modular information protocols, specified arsenic exposing dangerously perched rocks and astatine the hazard of landslide indispensable beryllium instantly identified and sealed. Similarly, vehicles transporting minerals to the neighbouring State without paying Green taxation indispensable beryllium seized, the Collector added.
