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Deputy Commissioner Ravikumar M R, as chairman of the District CRZ Committee, issued orders for giving temporary permits to 54 individuals and communities who had applied for engaging in traditional sand mining activities to lift sand from dunes on the CRZ areas of Phalguni and Nethravati rivers.
In May this year, National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) Southern Bench in Chennai, had halted large-scale commercial sand extraction (sand mining) along the Karnataka coast.
In its order concerning a petition from Udupi, NGT said that sand bars could be removed only by the local community using traditional methods.
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