Sand bags, Mumbai, India.
“Sand is the second most consumed natural resource, after water. The construction-building industry is by far the largest consumer of this finite resource. The traditional building of one average-sized house requires 200 tons of sand; a hospital requires 3,000 tons of sand; each kilometer of highway built requires 30,000 tons of sand… A nuclear plant, a staggering 12 million tons of sand…” Captions and Photograph by “Sand Wars” Award-Winning Filmmaker: © Denis Delestrac (2013).
Excerpts;
National Environment Care Federation (NECF) convener Shashidhar Shetty said illegal sand mining in coastal Karnataka (Southwest India) is a scam worth more than Rs 850 crore per annum. (1 Crore Rupees = 10 Million Rupees).
NEFC an NGO released a 300-page document and video clippings on illegal sand mining allegedly taking place in undivided Dakshina Kannada district…
Note:
Crore is a unit in Indian numerical system which is equivalent to 10 million. So one crore Rupees is same as 10 million Rupees.
One Crore Rupee, as of 2015, is approximately equivalent to USD $148,237.
Read Full Article, Bangalore Mirror (08-02-2016)
NGO releases documents, sting videos on illegal sand mining; The Times of India (08-02-2016)
Trimex to invest Rs. 2,500 cr. on beach sand mining, Andhra Pradesh; The Hindu (01-19-2016)
Indian mineral sand producer Trimex Group, will invest Rs. 2,500 crore (373 million USD) on mining beach minerals at Bhavanapadu and Kalingapatnam, two coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh state, located on the southeastern coast of the country. The company proposes the mining of 10 MTPA (10 million tonnes per annum) of heavy mineral sand along with pre-concentration plant of 1,525 tonne per hour…
Activist’s action against illegal sand mining near Kihim beach, India; Mumbai Mirror (05-20-2016)
Illegal miners have field day in state, Times of India (12-25-2015)
India’s ‘New Cities’ Plan: Environment Not Included, Aljazeera (03-06-2015)
People on Coastline Suffering Due to Sand Mining, India; a NEWS X LIVE Video (08-19-2013)
Sand Mining Causes Erosion In Indias Beaches, A Youtube Video (11-05-2013)
Tragedy of The Commons: Corrosive Growth of the Illegal Sand Mining Mafia, The Citizen (01-04-2016)
Not many people may know that illegal sand mining is a nationwide phenomena in India, and with spurt in housing and infrastructure projects, the illegal sand mining is thriving beyond the ambit of formal economy and law and order. Sand is everywhere and so is the sand mafia…
Illegal Sand Mining is New Gold Rush in India, Gulf News (07-23-2013)
Sand, Rarer Than One Thinks: A UNEP report (GEA-March 2014)
Despite the colossal quantities of sand and gravel being used, our increasing dependence on them and the significant impact that their extraction has on the environment, this issue has been mostly ignored by policy makers and remains largely unknown by the general public.
In March 2014 The United Nations released its first Report about sand mining. “Sand Wars” film documentary by Denis Delestrac – first broadcasted on the european Arte Channel, May 28th, 2013, where it became the highest rated documentary for 2013 – expressly inspired the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to publish this 2014-Global Environmental Alert.
Sand Wars, An Investigation Documentary, By Award-Winning Filmmaker Denis Delestrac (2013)
