TG govt cracks whip on sand overloading
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has cracked down on the sand mafia by imposing heavy penalties on overloading of sand transported through lorries and other heavy vehicles.
Henceforth, Rs 2,000 would be collected as fine per metric tonne (MT) of excess sand transportation. Hundreds of cases of overloading of sand transported through heavy vehicles were detected recently through a mines surveillance system.
The online monitoring system has helped in stopping exploitation of the sand mining and the only challenge is to stop overloading of the sand during transportation.
State Secretary to Mines M Raghunandan Rao took the decision of imposing heavy fines on overloading in vehicles transporting sand, following recent investigations that brought to light the sand mafia’s illegal activities in the sand trade denting the revenues generated from sand mining in the state.
The recent Telangana High Court’s orders prevented the state government from confiscating vehicles involved in illegal transportation of excess sand. To check the unbridled exploitation of sand by traders during transportation, the Mines Department has decided to impose heavy penalties on overloaded vehicles.
“It is learnt that some vehicles were carrying at least 4 MT to 5 MT of sand in excess during transportation from different places in the state. The high surveillance system tracked a lot of vehicles violating the rules in sand transportation and hence the Mining wing has started imposing hefty fines on the vehicles online. The fine bills would be directly sent to the vehicle owner and sand contractor.
If the transporters are found to have committed the crime repeatedly, the fine amount would be collected instantly or the vehicle will be stopped from moving from the sand loading point,” officials said.
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