The National Green Tribunal in a follow up on the rampant illegal sand mining on the banks of River Betwa, in Jalaun and Hamirpur districts of Uttar Pradesh has sought the detailed list of persons that are still continuing the same in defiance of directions.
A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the district magistrates of both the districts to place the list of such persons by September 27. This would be as per reports furnished in the list of local commissioners.
The backdrop of the directions lies in the review of an inspection report by a panel appointed by NGT comprising two court commissioners. They had been directed to inspect every site where the sand mining appears to have been carried out and also collect particulars of the land in terms of its detailed description.
They had been asked to contact the owners of the said land and collect names as to who had carried out the sand mining operations. Further, they were asked to collect particulars on the environmental clearances, if any, obtained for such sand mining.
They were further directed to visit toll posts on the approach roads leading to the highways from the site visited and collect particulars of the trucks carrying the sand there from, the bench directed the panel.