Just about three months after mining in the border districts of Punjab came under the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s scanner, the State has decided that legal mining would not be allowed within a km of the international border.
In an affidavit, the advance copy of which was circulated among the parties concerned today, the State also submitted that the decision had been taken following the concerns expressed by the army and the BSF. The State added another decision taken vide orders date October 18 was that screening-cum-washing plant and stone crushers would not be allowed to operate within 2 km of the international border.
Just about three months after mining in the border districts of Punjab came under the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s scanner, the State has decided that legal mining would not be allowed within a km of the international border.
In an affidavit, the advance copy of which was circulated among the parties concerned today, the State also submitted that the decision had been taken following the concerns expressed by the army and the BSF. The State added another decision taken vide orders date October 18 was that screening-cum-washing plant and stone crushers would not be allowed to operate within 2 km of the international border.
The State also sought the High Court’s permission to carry mining activity in six sites regarding which no objection had been raised by the Indian army. It added that the department was also making every “necessary effort to stop any sort of illegal mining and threat to national security caused by mining activities being carried out in Pathankot and Gurdaspur districts”.
It also undertook to actively consider all recommendations by the army authorities.
In an affidavit, Capt Ashima Das, working as “OIC legal cell” at Chandimandir submitted: “The mining would affect the structural integrity/strength of the bunkers in the proximity.”
It was added that mining would result in soil erosion, thereby causing bunkers to cave in and also reduce the defence potential of “Dhussis”.
The mining of river bed was also likely to change its course and alter the depth at various places, thereby disrupting the defence layouts.
The mining would also affect the natural drainage of water leading to unpredictable flooding. Besides this, mining would also restrict movement space and, thereby, “incur associated delays in reinforcement and counter attack tasks”.
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