The flying squad of the department carried out 171 raids in 2019 and 127 raids in 2020 to check illegal practices in leases.
GANDHINAGAR: The menace of illegal mining and malpractices of those who have been granted mining lease dominated the question hour of the Gujarat assembly on Monday.
Congress MLAs sought details of the work by the flying squad of mines and minerals department of the government.
Providing information, minister Saurabh Patel said that in the past two years, the flying squad of the department carried out 171 raids in 2019 and 127 raids in 2020 to check illegal practices in leases. He added that mining theft of Rs 120.7 crore was detected in 2019 and Rs 91.8 crore theft was detected in 2020.
Video grab of the incident where one of the accused is seen toying the lioness with a live chicken
RAJKOT: In a landmark judgement, a court in Gir-Somnath district on Monday convicted seven persons for harassing Asiatic lions and sentenced six of them to three years imprisonment and one person to one-year jail term.
The court also ordered the district collector to take possession of the forest settlement village land of Ilyaas Hoth where the illegal lion show was organized on the night of May 18, 2018.
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The flying squad of the department carried out 171 raids in 2019 and 127 raids in 2020 to check illegal practices in leases.
GANDHINAGAR: The menace of illegal mining and malpractices of those who have been granted mining lease dominated the question hour of the Gujarat assembly on Monday.
Congress MLAs sought details of the work by the flying squad of mines and minerals department of the government.
Providing information, minister Saurabh Patel said that in the past two years, the flying squad of the department carried out 171 raids in 2019 and 127 raids in 2020 to check illegal practices in leases. He added that mining theft of Rs 120.7 crore was detected in 2019 and Rs 91.8 crore theft was detected in 2020.
File photo of Mahatma Gandhi
AHMEDABAD: Former West Bengal governor and Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has donated 550 letters between Bapu, Kasturba, Sardar Patel, Mahadev Desai, and his father Devdas Gandhi (Mahatma’s youngest son) to Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust on Friday. The collection also includes special envelopes made by Sardar Patel while in jail.
These unpublished letters were to form part of the 100 volumes of the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi. Devdas Gandhi had desired to compile these letters himself and publish them with his own notes. However, his death in 1957 stalled the project. The intimate letters include Bapu’s editing instruction to Devdas on certain articles as well as Kasturba remembering Devdas and expressing her desire to meet him.