Green Tribunal Petition to be Filed by Kerala Govt

22 January 2014

Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala Government has decided to petition the Green Tribunal in order to have some relaxations in the “stringent stipulations” against extracting materials such as sand and rock from rivers and hills as such regulations will lead to the collapse of the construction sector.

The government had asked the District Collectors to identify stretches along the rivers where sand-mining could be done without causing environmental damage.

He said the government was aware of the problems in the construction industry and had asked the Chief Secretary to coordinate between the Revenue Department, which is in charge of issuing permits for sand-mining, and the Labour Department, which has to look after the concerns of the workers in the sector, so as to ensure that sufficient materials such as sand could be made available to the construction industry.

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