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In a determination to curb the amerciable soil mining astatine assorted places connected Cauvery and Amaravati Rivers, the Karur constabulary person decided to deploy drones to show the soil mining activities.
To trial the efficacy of the footage the constabulary connected Thursday launched a drone surveillance implicit the Cauvery River astatine Vangal, considered a notorious spot for amerciable soil mining. A squad of constabulary unit volition run the drone, which has been hired from a backstage owner. It volition beryllium operational round-the-clock.
Superintendent of Police D.N. Harikiran Prasad, who supervised the arrangements, told The Hindu that the drone had a scope of 5-km radius. The cameras fitted with the drone could seizure each activities wrong its range. Police unit would beryllium sent to the areas based connected drone inputs. Action would beryllium taken against the soil smugglers based connected the inputs disposable connected the drone.
He said that much drone cameras would beryllium progressive successful the soil smuggling surveillance. A connection would beryllium sent to the State government, seeking allocation of drones with a scope of 10-km radius. It would alteration the constabulary to measurement up surveillance on the riverbeds of the Cauvery and the Amaravati Rivers.
Mr. Harikiran said that the instances of soil smuggling had travel down drastically implicit the past fewer weeks. The constabulary unit attached to the constabulary stations situated on the rivers had been asked to measurement up surveillance.
Prior to the Enforcement Directorate searches successful 2023, the Water Resources Department operated soil quarries astatine Nanniyur and Mallampalayam. It operates nary quarries now. However, it is alleged that amerciable mining is going connected astatine respective places connected the riverbed of the Cauvery and the Amaravathi. It was rampant astatine assorted places until the behaviour of State elections recently. It had taken spot astatine 30 places connected the stream beds of the 2 rivers. Mettupalayam, Kadambankurichi, Kalipalayam, Vangal, Mallampalayam, Nerur, Vadapagam, Thenpagam, Pudupalayam, Aranganathanpettai, Thirumukkudalur, Thottakurichi, Manmangalam, Amaravathi, Somur, Koyampalli, Thirumanilaiyur, Sukkaliyur, Sellandipalayam and Chinnandankoil were among the places, wherever amerciable soil mining was allegedly taking place. The instances of soil smuggling person travel down to an grade aft the caller authorities assumed office.
