Tag: Illegal Stone Mining

The Khordha Collector is instructed to form a committee and carry out the renovation, reclamation, and restitution of the excavated areas with the penalty amount.

Besides the revenue loss, the illegal operations at the said quarry are also posing a huge threat to the people residing in nearby areas and the flora and fauna of adjacent Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary. 

The special committee has also been assigned to ascertain the identity of the law violators in coordination with the investigators or otherwise and proceed against them for enforcement of environmental norms, including action of stopping the illegal mining, added the letter.

Jajpur: The Jajpur district administration will constitute a task force to crack the whip on illegal stone quarries in the district, days after the death of two workers at a quarry here. “We are going to form a task force headed by Jajpur sub-collector. It will have officials from mining, forest, pollution control board and […]

Rourkela: Two labourers were killed while two others sustained injuries after a blast took place in an illegal stone quarry near Jalada in Rourkela on Thursday. As per sources, the incident occurred this morning when the stone blast firing was being carried out illegally at the A block quarry in Munda slum. Suddenly a few […]

Bhubaneswar: Two Inspectors-In-Charge of the State Police facing possible action by Odisha Crime Branch over their alleged links with illegal stone mining racket in Khurda have been missing from their duties since days. Present Khurda Sadar Police Station Inspector-In-Charge, Bikram Keshari Jena and Baliapal IIC Ranjit Sahu who also had a stint as the police inspector […]