Upalokayukta take officers to task for allowing illegal gravel mining in Vijayanagara district

Upalokayukta take officers to task for allowing illegal gravel mining in Vijayanagara district

After receiving definite information about illegal gravel mining at a private land at Kallahalli in Hosapete taluk of Vijayanagara district, Upalokayukta B. Veerappa paid a surprise visit to the property on Saturday and reprimanded the officials for allowing it. The local village officer and Deputy Director of Mines and Geology were at the receiving end.

Despite the fact that state authorities detected in 2018 an outbreak of illegal mining in the sector of El Triunfo, La Merced parish of Buenos Aires, with approximately 5,000 miners of Venezuelan, Colombian and Peruvian nationalities. Despite the fact that in July 2019, an armed mega-operation was carried out to eradicate this focus in the area of La Merced of Buenos Aires, Imbabura, illegal mining is in good health and has now been consolidated…