Drones to check rampant illegal sand mining
Wondering how rampant illegal mining of river sand continued across the State despite so called “effective” surveillance mechanisms put in place by the State government, the Madras High Court on Thursday directed the government to speed up the process of deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/drones in areas prone to mining. Justices M. Venugopal and S. Vaidyanathan also issued a slew of other directions, which included the constitution of special anti-sand smuggling teams comprising higher officials with adequate powers to handle the powerful sand mafia, which had nexus with politicians as well as the “black sheep” among government officials.
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