Cabinet sub-committee on sand crisis
Bengaluru: Nov 4, 2016, DHNS: A cabinet sub-committee headed by Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra has been set up to look into the sand crisis that has been plaguing Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts.
The committee which has been asked to submit its recommendations in two weeks also comprises elected representatives from the two coastal districts.
The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday.
‘Construction industry hit’
During the meeting, the elected representatives highlighted that the enforcement of the new sand policy had hit the construction industry in the two districts.
The sand problem had worsened to such an extent that all construction activities in the coastal districts had come to a halt, they said.
They have demanded a separate extraction policy for the two districts. Senior Congress leader Oscar Fernandes and ministers B Ramanath Rai, Vinay Kulkarni, H K Patil, Kagodu Thimmappa, Pramod Madhwaraj and other leaders were present at the meeting.