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No check on illegal sand mining at Modhe village

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Residents of Modhe village near the international border have been worried due to illegal sand mining from a village pond. Irate residents alleged that JCB machines had been extracting sand from the pond for the last one month. They said illegal mining is done in the evening and then loaded in tractor-trailers. The residents

To clear way for mining, did Dantewada administration fake approval from a village council?

Source: scroll.in Until they saw a carpet of felled trees outside their village in early January, the residents of Hiroli in ChhattisgarhтАЩs Dantewada district had no inkling that the government had cleared mining operations on their sacred hill. Their shock deepened when they realised that, on paper, they had been shown to have approved the