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Tamil Nadu
L. Renganathan
KARUR: With the Revenue Department, Police and other officials cracking the whip on sand-laden lorries that are overloaded, sand mining and transportation from quarries in Karur district has come to a grinding halt. Quarries failed to reopen on Saturday after several overloaded lorries were intercepted by authorities and penalised following the Chief Minister’s directive to district administrations on checking overloading of sand-laden lorries. Trouble was brewing all through the last several months as the price of the quarried sand kept leaping up, popping a surprise at every turn on the operators. Water leads to closure
The situation reached a peak as water was released in River Cauvery from Mettur Dam for delta irrigation, forcing the closure of quarries on the river bed. Several lorries that loaded sand in excess of sanctioned capacity from quarries in Karur district were seized by the authorities near Vellakoil, Kangeyam and Palladam. Even in Karur and Kulithalai, the Revenue authorities and the police threw the book at the overloaded lorries and seized them. Lorries decided to skip loading at quarries in Karur district for over two days and the ‘Adi Perukku’ festival that fell on Friday turned out to be a holiday for the sand quarries. For three days, there was no quarrying operations. While six lorries were detained at Kulithalai on charges of overloading, several lorries were intercepted in Karur on the same charges. Sand quarries should have resumed operations on Saturday but loading contractors decided to hold back for a day and are keeping their fingers crossed on the next move by the State Government. The authorities, in a bid to block overloading, have decided to load only 200 cubic feet in regular single-axle lorries and 400 cubic feet on the bigger and heavier multi- axle lorries.
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