case basis.
4.9.Riverbed mining
4.9.1. Environment damage being caused by unregulated riverbed mining of sand, bazari and boulders is attracting considerable attention including ... recommendations are therefore made for the riverbed mining:
(a) In the case of mining leases for riverbed sand mining, specific river stretches should be identified
workers of the second respondent are sand
mining workers who are engaged in the mining of sand
from the river through the Olavanna-Kolathara-Chungam ... present kadavu from other places where
the sand is carried to the trucks by the sand mining
workers themselves. Reliance is placed by the counsel
sand dredging work, to keep
the channels clear, without accumulation of sand, for
free ingress and egress of vessels through such
channels. The sand dredging ... State
decided to entrust such sand dredging work, in the
Port area, to Co-operative Societies of traditional
sand mining employees, which would also ensure
sufficient police protection to
the petitioner and his workers for conducting
sand mining from the property having an extent
of 66 cents in old survey ... contended that Mining and Geology department of
Pathanamthitta district is issuing mining
permits mechanically without considering the
ecological impacts of sand mining in the banks
Rules, for grant of mining lease, to enable it to mine garnet sand, qua the land admeasuring 4.80.0 hectares, situate ... Industries (MMD.1) Department, dated 29.12.2010, granting mining lease, in favour of the petitioner, to mine garnet sand, over the subject land.
4.9. This
sand audit
works. Those which have valid sand audit studies
completed will collect and reach the applications for
sand removal along with the sand audit ... feasibility of sand removal and conditions. In such
cases the Director of Environment & Climate Change
will allow sand mining provided the District Authorities
Petitioners are labourers engaged in sand mining at
Podavoor Kadavu, within the limits of Kayyur-Cheemeni
Grama Panchayat, the fifth respondent. The sand mining
activities ... Sand Rules, 2002, hereinafter
referred to as "the Rules", confer authority on the
Panchayat to publish the list of sand mining labourers
working
Petitioners are labourers engaged in sand mining at
Podavoor Kadavu, within the limits of Kayyur-Cheemeni
Grama Panchayat, the fifth respondent. The sand mining
activities ... Sand Rules, 2002, hereinafter
referred to as "the Rules", confer authority on the
Panchayat to publish the list of sand mining labourers
working
whether the sixth respondent had
excavated more sand and especially in view of the illegal sand
mining going on in the locality as contended ... extraction of 75 M.T. of sand. If the
sixth respondent wants to proceed for further sand mining,
they have to obtain a further permission
part of the respondents in taking effective measures to
prevent illegal sand mining from Ithipuzha river in spite of several
directions of this Court regarding ... sand mining.
2. When the matter came up for admission, interim order
dated 2.6.2009 came to be passed in W.P(C).No.15138
