Budgam admin assures action
Budgam: The District Development Commissioner (DDC), Budgam Dr Syed Sehrish Asgar on Friday urged the concerned officials to ensure that the ban on illegal brick kilns, stone crushers and mining of earth, sand and boulders across district Budgam is made operational.
The DDC stressed on taking strict action against the offenders found involved in illegal mining and close down brick kilns or stone crushers operating without permission.
She said that this illegal trend has become nuisance and is causing adverse impact on health, ecology, traffic; roads, agriculture and other sectors and directed Tehsildars to keep tight vigil on the illegal practice and submit action report regularly from their respective areas.
She called for booking the offenders under the prescribed law.
The meeting was apprised that Rs, 2.54 lakh has been recovered as fine during the last month of April, while as 9 FIRs have been registered against the violators. The meeting was briefed that out of 227 brick kilns 170 are functioning legally and 54 are reportedly operating illegally in various areas of Budgam, BK Pora, Chadoora, Magam and Beerwah.
The DDC instructed the concerned Tehsildars and DMO to constitute joint teams, represented by police, agriculture, revenue and mining officials to close down units operating without permission.
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