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YSRCP Nellore territory president and erstwhile Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy called the escaped soil argumentation ‘a implicit fraud’, alleging that it had go a screen for large-scale amerciable mining and organised plunder of earthy resources by ruling enactment leaders.
Addressing the media astatine the YSRCP territory bureau successful Nellore connected Tuesday, the Minister alleged, “Sand is being sold astatine much than 5 times the government-fixed price, portion conjugation MLAs are minting implicit ₹3 crore per period from each soil reach.”
He presented photographic grounds of midnight and early-morning amerciable mining astatine Virivuru and Surayapalem soil reaches, depicting soil excavation up to 10 metres heavy successful Penna riverbed utilizing dense machinery successful unfastened usurpation of rules, NGT directions, and biology safeguards.
“Under the YSRCP government, regulated soil tenders generated a gross of astir ₹700 crore annually, totalling astir ₹3,500 crore implicit 5 years for the exchequer, whereas nether the conjugation authorities the full gross is being siphoned disconnected by governmental networks successful the sanction of escaped sand,” the erstwhile Minister alleged.
“The collections are being made done QR codes routed to backstage slope accounts, portion buyers are fixed handwritten slips alternatively of authoritative permits. Tractors, which should beryllium charged nether ₹300, are being forced to wage adjacent to ₹1,250, portion tippers and lorries that should wage betwixt ₹1,400 and ₹2,000 are being charged betwixt ₹8,000 to ₹15,000,” helium further alleged.
Mr. Kakani accused the ruling enactment leaders of constructing roads wrong the riverbed to alteration round-the-clock soil mining, blocking irrigation canals, destroying the Penna stream ecosystem, and creating deadly pits that person already claimed guiltless lives.
“Those questioning the soil mafia are being threatened oregon attacked, portion constabulary enactment arsenic mute spectators, adjacent seeking ministerial support alternatively of enforcing the law,” helium claimed.
“If the Chief Minister has immoderate sincerity, the culprits indispensable beryllium brought earlier the public. The ongoing soil plunder is bleeding State revenues, destroying the environment, and afloat exposing the coalition’s escaped soil slogan arsenic a monolithic organised scam,” the YSRCP person alleged.
