In view of the sand and ballast crisis arising in East Singhbhum, a meeting of the Jamshedpur branch of Builders Association of India was held under the chairmanship of president Prabhakar Singh on Tuesday. On this occasion, Prabhakar Singh said that the construction work related to infrastructure has been directly affected by the sand and ballast crisis arising in the entire state including the district. Projects related to building construction have also hanged in balance.
He said that due to the short-sightedness of the government, sand crisis has arisen in the entire state. Every year from June 10 to October 15, sand lifting is banned by the NGT. The government should have prepared for this in advance. For the last two years, sand ghats have not been settled in the state nor were new leases given for stone mining. Builders and contractors are grappling with the sand and ballast crisis.
He said that the construction work has affected the lives of the people associated with this area, lakhs of skilled and unskilled workers are associated with this area, whose family and livelihood depends on the development of this area, due to the sand crisis arising in the state. All the projects in the area are hanging in the balance, due to which the problem of daily wager has arisen in front of the people associated with this area.
There has been an unexpected increase in the prices of cement, rebar, sand and ballast, the resources needed for building construction. , which has directly affected the cost of housing construction, business units associated with this sector are not able to complete their projects on time due to rising material prices, many small and big projects are being built on loans taken from banks. If the project is not completed on time, the bank has to pay more interest, Regulatory RERA, which is related to building construction, imposes heavy fines for not delivering the house to the customers on time, many projects will be closed, financial institutions and investors will suffer heavy losses,
He said that the state government has put restrictions on importing construction materials from other states, the government is directly losing the mining royalty, income tax and GST of businessmen, it is affecting the growth rate of the state, Jharkhand Our demand is from the government till they renew their mining lease lease, then as an alternative, allow us to buy construction material, sand, ballast etc. from other states, so that all the projects can be completed on time. Prabhakar Singh said that if no concrete decision is taken by the government in this regard, then the association will be bound for agitation.