Fact-finding survey conducted in mining region
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Senior officers from the departments of forest, income, mines and geology and survey and land information conducted a joint survey at Somalamma Hill in Ravikamatham mandal to determine whether or not mining exercise was taken up by Stone Plus firm in pockets that fall underneath the reserve forest.
The Somalamma hill was notified as a reserve forest in 1982 and was named as ‘Cheemalapadu forest block’.
The Somalamma hill is a part of a catchment space of the Kalayanapulova reservoir, which was constructed in 1978.
In 2016, granite mining leases have been granted on this hill and since 2017, farmers and tribals from catchment space have been demanding stoppage of mining exercise.
Tribals from surrounding villages participated in the inspection and submitted a petition to the Sub-Collector. Representatives from the mining firm Stone Plus have been additionally current.
P.S. Ajay Kumar, nationwide secretary, All India Agricultural and Rural Labours Association (AIARLA) submitted a report on mining in the dam’s catchment space. He additionally defined to officers how the reserve forest space was allotted underneath the pretext of the ‘gap area’.
The joint survey was conducted primarily based on instructions from the Andhra Pradesh High Court and a report shall be shortly submitted to the courtroom.
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