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Removal of gravel from waterbodies
July 3 , 2024
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- The Tamil Nadu government has decided against allowing potters, farmers and members of the public to remove “gravel” free of cost from beds of waterbodies.
- They would be able to quarry “clay and silt” for free, but under a revised procedure.
- Earlier, the Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1959, allowed quarrying of “clay, silt and gravel” for free from the beds of tanks, channels and reservoirs across the State.
- The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, calls gravel a “minor mineral”.
- The State government amended the Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1959, in December 2022 to replace the word savudu with the term “ordinary earth”.
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