{"id":140,"date":"2013-10-10T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beachminerals.org\/?p=140"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:41:58","slug":"plea-lift-beach-sand-mining-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/plea-lift-beach-sand-mining-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea to lift beach sand mining ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Representatives of various industries\u2019 association from southern districts on Tuesday appealed to chief minister Jayalalithaa to lift the suspension of beach sand mining in Tut\u00adicorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts as it derailed the livelihood of over 50,000 families with breadwinners losing jobs. The association also sought an appointment with CM to explain their plight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe welcome the government decision to survey the mines to find out any violations or illegal beach mining. The companies involved in irregularities can be pena\u00adlised but closing down the entire industry has affected the lives of poor coastal communities,\u201d convener Paul Raja of Tirunelveli-Tuticorin Small and Medium Industries Association told reporters here.\u00a0He insisted that there were no violations of any mining rules and the companies were open for probe.<\/p>\n

Paul Raja said suspension of mining had, apart from thousands of workers losing jobs, also resulted in the mining firms defaulting on their deliveries to foreign buyers and consequently facing fines.<\/p>\n

Worse still, these long-time clients could migrate to suppliers in other countries. \u201cApart from our mining companies losing export contracts, the huge foreign exchange inflow too would collapse. The damage could be irrever\u00adsible,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

Beach Minerals Prod\u00aducers\u2019 Associations secretary K. Thangaraj said mining firms had so far incurred losses of Rs 800-1,000 crore due to suspension of mining.<\/p>\n

About 50,000 tonnes of beach sand was being mined in a month by 22 companies. Asked about a charge that beach sand mining affected fishing in the area, he said the units did not use any chemical to separate the minerals from beach sand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use magnets to separate the minerals from the mined sand. There has been no degradation of coastal areas,\u201d he said, insisting that the miners had not indu\u00adlged in irregularties.<\/p>\n

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Representatives of various industries\u2019 association from southern districts on Tuesday appealed to chief minister Jayalalithaa to lift the suspension of beach sand mining in Tut\u00adicorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts as it derailed the livelihood of over 50,000 families with breadwinners losing jobs. The association also sought an appointment with CM to explain their plight. \u201cWe … Continue reading “Plea to lift beach sand mining ban”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-news","category-news-release"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"ta","enabled_languages":["en","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sand9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}