{"id":1583,"date":"2013-12-26T06:43:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beachminerals.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:41:58","slug":"beach-mining-industry-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/beach-mining-industry-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach mining industry in distress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T. Paul Raja, convener, Federation of Beach Mineral Producers\u2019 Associations, addressing the media in Chennai on Monday. He is seen here flanked by federation members Thangaraj (left) and Srinivasan. \u2014 DC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chennai:\u00a0<\/strong>The federation of beach mineral producers\u2019 assoc\u00adi\u00adati\u00adon has appealed to the government to lift the ban on mining imposed a few months ago following alle\u00adga\u00adtions of malpractices.<\/p>\n

The federation points out that the closing down of the labour intensive industry has badly hit the livelihood of over 50,000 families em\u00adployed by over 20 licensed miners in the state. Bes\u00adides, continuing with the \u2018temporary\u2019 ban while an official probe is on into the various allegations co\u00aduld \u2018irrever\u00adsibly harm\u2019 ex\u00adport orders as the international buyers could move away to other countries, the federation convener T. Paul Raja said at a press conference here.<\/p>\n

A CD reportedly made in a sting operation against a group of miners was also released to the media to back the federation charge that this group had misled authorities by planting lies about their rivals in the business, which led to the government ordering the temporary ban and asking revenue secretary Gaga\u00adn\u00addeep Singh Bedi to investigate the entire gamut of beach sand mining.<\/p>\n

Some retired IAS officers too have been involved in the disinformation. \u201cWe have submitted one det\u00ada\u00adiled CD to the high court. We have also presented a CD to Bedi following the court directive that we could approach the gove\u00adrnm\u00adent if there are further grievances on this issue,\u201d Paul Raja said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no problem with the government finding the truth and punishing the miners found guilty of malpractices, but let not the entire industry suffer bec\u00adause of the misdeeds of just one or two persons. Luckily, we have a very efficient and upright officer, Bedi, probing this issue. We are confident truth will prevail,\u201d Paul Raja said.<\/p>\n

Bedi has submitted his report after inspecting the Tuticorin beach-sand mi\u00adnes. He was subsequently asked by the government to also probe the working of the mines in Tiruchy, Mad\u00adurai, Kanyakumar and Tir\u00adunelveli districts. The senior IAS officer is at the job.<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/131225\/news-current-affairs\/article\/beach-mining-industry-distress<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The federation of beach mineral producers\u2019 assoc\u00adi\u00adati\u00adon has appealed to the government to lift the ban on mining imposed a few months ago following alle\u00adga\u00adtions of malpractices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122,"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-1583","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":true},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/25-sand.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}