‘People not getting construction material’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 7: Sukhnandan Choudhary, former Minister and senior BJP leader asked the LG administration to approve the tenders and grant permission for legal mining in Tawi river on the pattern of other agencies involved in Government construction works.
Talking to media persons along with Dr. Pardeep Mahotra, J&K BJP Media-In-charge, and DDC Dharminder Kumar said here, today
Sukhnandan Choudhary said that the Government had already advertised the “Block” auction inviting tenders from the eligible on multiple occasions. The tenders were submitted but the matter was subdued due to reasons best known to the concerned departments.
“If environment clearance cannot be provided by the Department for these tenders, then how come the mining/dressing permission can be provided to other agencies to use the sand and gravel from “Tawi” in the same circumstances? “When already several agencies are using the sand and gravel in the construction works initiated by the Government, why the same permissions and the pattern is not being adopted by the concerned departments to give a relief to the common masses?”, questioned Sukhnandan.
“Common people are forced to pay exorbitant prices for the sand and gravel due to the restrictions imposed on the mining. People have to pay in thousands for the same sand for which they had to pay in hundreds earlier”, said Sukhnandan, adding that the cost of construction material for houses has multiplied at least 1.5 times due to this restriction.
He also raised concern for the poor owners of tractor-trolleys whose vehicles are seized by the police and are decaying at various police stations and police posts. He said that they are the poor people who have collected money with much difficulty to buy these vehicles and are now not able to pay their loans and debts due to this inadvertent delay in the distribution and allocation policy.
Sukhnandan said that he has already brought the matter to the notice of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha and once again he appeals LG to give immediate relief to the common masses. He said that he is hopeful that like earlier, LG will also take a quick decision in this matter to give relief to the masses.
He also asked the Chief Secretary that the public has high hopes from him as he is the son of soil and asked him to resolve the matter without delay.
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