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Even arsenic hundreds of complaints pertaining to illicit mining of minerals and its amerciable proscription to neighbouring Kerala are flooding the authorities offices close up to the Chief Minister’s Special Cell, Minister for Minerals and Natural Resources T.K. Prabhu inspected amazingly the Puliyarai check-post connected the district’s borderline with Kerala successful the tiny hours of Monday.
Hours aft the Minister’s inspection, District Collector A.K. Kamal Kishore suspended the operations of 18 of the 54 quarries successful the territory arsenic the study submitted by the inspection teams reportedly recovered violations successful these quarries.
The activists and the environmentalists are clamouring for due investigatoion into the alleged amerciable quarrying of minerals, mostly stones and unlawful transporting of it to neighbouring Kerala. Besides sending hundreds of complaints to the officials of assorted departments and to the Chief Minister’s Special Cell seeking contiguous steps to cheque these crimes against nature, they person besides filed cases successful the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court.
They were besides organising agitations successful Tenkasi district.
The dense trucks are besides damaging the agrarian roads and drinking h2o pipes. These trucks flying astatine lightning velocity adjacent origin fatal accidents arsenic nary could ace whip against these motortruck drivers.
Only aft a Molotov cocktail onslaught connected 1 of the motortruck drivers carrying minerals to Kerala, the constabulary took enactment against the unlawfully overloaded trucks and rash driving on the agrarian roads got curtailed to immoderate extent.
As these corporate actions did not output desirable results during the erstwhile regime, the conservationists signifier protests against this loot continues.
When Mr. Kamal Kishore formed teams connected May 9 to inspect the 54 chromatic quarries successful the district, the inspectors recovered violations successful 18 quarries. Subsequently, the Collector connected Monday evening suspended quarrying operations successful these 18 mines adjacent arsenic broad reports connected quality and quantum of violations are awaited.
Even arsenic the Collector is waiting for these broad reports, Mr. Prabhu has visited amazingly the Puliyarai check-post suggesting immoderate superior enactment successful store against the quarry owners for amerciable mining and transporting of minerals. As each the vehicles carrying stones, M-sand, bluish metallic etc., each from the quarries successful Tenkasi district, person to transverse this check-post to scope Kerala, the curate inspected the check-post. He checked the records containing the details astir the vehicles, quality and quantity of goods transported to Kerala, violation, if immoderate etc.
There was nary authoritative connection connected the Minister’s findings during his inspection.
Secretary of Tenkasi territory ‘Iyarkai Vala Paathukaapu Sangam’ S. Jameen said the minister’s aboriginal greeting inspection had led to the suspension of cognition successful 18 quarries against which the Sangam had already filed cases successful Madurai Bench of Madras High Court.
“All the quarries successful Tenkasi territory should beryllium surveyed scientifically utilizing drones to ascertain the nonstop quantum of violations. Punitive measures should beryllium taken against the violators who person looted the earthy resources astatine volition each these years,” said Mr. Jameen and erstwhile MLA K. Ravi Arunan, president of Tenkasi territory ‘Iyarkai Vala Paathukaapu Sangam’ .
