Advance in Environmental Waste Management & Recycling(AEWMR)

Member, Monitoring Committee of Hon’ble Supreme Court, and member of Regional Empowered Committee of Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, India

Publications

• Research Article   
  Wounds of Granite Quarries in Kanakpura Taluka of Karnataka State, India. Mirage of Rehabilitation and Restoration-A Case Study
  Author(s): Uday Veer Singh I.F.S (R)*
  
  Based on complaints of large-scale illegal quarrying in forest lands; encroachments in Govt lands and inaction of Govt machinery, State Govt issued an order on 27.4.2006 forming a team of officers under the leadership of the Author of this article to survey and investigate all quarries in Kanakpura taluka and also in Bangalore Rural district and report to Govt for further action. Accordingly, 484 granted quarries and other illegal quarries in 63 villages were surveyed / investigated and a report was submitted by the Author on 26.6.2006 for further action. Survey sketches were prepared, photos were taken and locations were identified by taking longitudes and latitudes of all quarries. After the survey, some Writ petitions were filed and Hon’ble high Court issued directions to bring in law to Rehabilitate the Quarries. Accordingly, State Govt inserted some Rules in the K.. Read More»
  

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