General public, major projects suffer as 'mafia' controls sand, gravel trade; material cost goes 3- time up

General public, major projects suffer as ‘mafia’ controls sand, gravel trade; material...
General public, major projects suffer as ‘mafia’ controls sand, gravel trade; material cost goes 3- time up
Gopal Sharma
JAMMU, Apr 14: The Government of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is losing huge revenue every month as mafia is fully controlling the illegal trade of miner mineral, while general public is being made to pay through its nose as the cost of material including sand and gravel has gone three times up in just last two years.
Official sources revealed that UT Administration has virtually failed to plug the revenue losses worth crores and keep a check on the ‘open loot of and plunder’ of the mineral resources of Jammu and Kashmir. Though Government claims to have auctioned more than 60% of the miner mineral river /Nallah bocks in Jammu and many other districts as well, but the sources in the G&M Department claimed that hardly a few lease have been granted to the parties so far, which has compounded the situation.

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