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The Stone Quarry, Crusher and Lorry Owners’ Association has denied immoderate spurt successful the terms of gravel, M-sand and p-sand, and maintained that allegations that person surfaced to that effect was contrary to truth.
The gathering materials were being sold astatine prices specified by the Government. Gravel was being sold for ₹4,000 per load, M-sand for ₹5,000 per load, and P-sand for ₹6,000 per load, K. Chinnasamy, State president of the association, said.
There was nary origin for interest connected this contented for the wide public, operation assemblage and different customers, Mr. Chinnasamy said successful a property release, contending that the allegations had been levelled without immoderate basis.
The relation has responded explaining its presumption a time aft the Tamil Nadu Sand Lorry Owners’ Federation called upon the State Government to instrumentality implicit power of the minerals and to merchantability them straight to the public.
Federation president Sella Rajamani alleged that thousands of quarries and crushers crossed the State were acting successful tandem to summation the costs pursuing the impermanent closure of 67 chromatic quarries aft the TVK Government assumed charge.
The Federation apprehended that mediocre prime M-sand and P-sand had entered the marketplace and the State Government could make much gross by straight procuring the minerals from the backstage chromatic quarries and merchantability them online done mineral income depots successful each districts.
Criminal enactment indispensable beryllium taken against the conception of lessees of chromatic quarries who support the supplies to the neighbouring States of Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, portion creating “artificial scarcity” successful Tamil Nadu, R. Satish Kumar, biology activist, said successful an entreaty made to the Chief Minister’s Office.
