Hearing was held in the Himachal High Court today on a petition filed on allegations of violation of rules in the operation of stone crushers established at Baddi, Barotiwala and Nalagarh (BBN) in Solan district. Court seizes two stone crushers of Congress MLA Ramkumar from Doon, Pradesh
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After hearing the case, Judge Sandeep Sharma, Principal Secretary (Industry) of Himachal Government, Principal Secretary (Home) including Director of Industries, State Geologist, Mining Officer Solan, Member Secretary of State Pollution Control, Regional Pollution Control Officer Baddi including Deputy Commissioner Solan, Notice has been issued to Superintendent of Police, Baddi, Barotiwala, Nalagarh and Regional Transport Officer Baddi, seeking reply to the petition within 4 weeks.
The petitioner said – after the expiry of the NOC period, the lease was renewed again.
Petitioner Krishna Kumar said that all the stone crusher units of BBN area renewed their lease again after the expiry of their lease period and No Objection Certificate from Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board and also obtained pollution clearance.
It is alleged that, none of them have disclosed before the respondent authorities that in place of one crushing machinery, they have installed 8 to 10 crushing units in the same crusher unit and they are mining minerals in huge quantities from the leased land. Taking out. It is alleged that these stone crushers are mining thousands of times more than the initial mining permission and they have now deployed hundreds of trucks to transport goods instead of 10 to 20 trucks.
Doon MLA Ramkumar Chaudhary
Demand for inspection of these stone crushers
Krishna Kumar has demanded inspection of M/s Shiv Bhole Stone Crusher, M/s Kundlas Stone Crusher, Rama Stone Crusher, M/s Gupta Stone Crusher and M/s Doon Stone Crusher established in Haripur Sandoli Tehsil Nalagarh from the concerned authorities.
Request to install CCTV in crusher unit
The petition has also demanded instructions to install CCTV cameras in each crusher unit of these stone crushers. The applicant has sought to issue instructions to establish check posts and measurement bridges in respect of these stone crusher units, so that the crusher units are not able to excavate and supply mined minerals in excess of the capacity for which they have been permitted by the Industries Department. Has been.
A demand has been made to establish similar check posts and measurement bridges on the border of Punjab State also, so that illegal mining material is not transported from Himachal to Punjab State, because the said illegal transportation is causing huge loss to the state exchequer. There is a loss of.
200 complaints pending
Krishna has also sought instructions to provide security, infrastructure and deployment of appropriate staff in the Pollution Control Board and the Industries Department. He says that there are about 200 complaints of people regarding illegal mining and illegal operations of pharma companies in the area, but till date those complaints have not been dealt with by the concerned officer of Pollution Control Board as per the law, due to which he is the most Know well.