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| Expert panel recommends immediate banning of mining sand from river beds | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Aug 27: An expert panel on bridges has recommended that mining of sand from the immediate region of bridges on rivers in Samba district be immediate banned.
"The ban has been recommended to save the bridges from collapsing," official sources said.
The panel, led by Gosh -- an expert on bridges and their maintenance -- had come from Kolkata on the call of National Highway Authority of India (NHIA) after a pillar of Billown nullah near here got damaged.
Sources said the panel told NHAI that there was no need to dismantle the bridge as it could be repaired and made motorable within three months.
The panel made it clear that if the uncontrolled excavation of sand from the river beds in Samba was not immediately banned, the foundations of all the bridges on them would weaken and could collapse with the passage of time.
The illegal and uncontrolled excavation of sand and bajri from the beds of rivers and nullahs in Samba district of the region has been termed as the main cause behind the weakening of the basic structures of bridges on them.
"These water bodies also have the evidence of degrading effects on their beds because of the mining of sand and bajri," the sources added.
"When the river and nullah beds are excavated in the immediate region of the bridges on them, it leads to the weakening of their foundations and ultimately to their collapse," sources said.
"Miners strip the river banks bare and excavate pits in a way that increases the width of the river, which in turn affect the foundations of bridges," the sources added.
The authorities concerned has on Saturday last put a ban on the sand mining from the river beds in Samba district with immediate effect.
As per the order, no miner was allowed to excavate sand within 500 mt upstream and 300 mt downstream from the bridges on Devak and Basantar rivers, and Billowl nullah.
In the case of small nullahs, which had culverts on them, no excavation work was allowed within 150 mt upstream and 100 mt downstream, the sources added. |
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