GUWAHATI: Fearing herbal screw ups in the coming rainy season, the Kamrup (metro) administration has strictly prohibited earth slicing and filling for unplanned buildings in the city's hillocks and different low-lying areas.
A liberate from the administration said unscientific and haphazard earth slicing and earth filling destabilizes herbal earth slopes and blocks herbal as well as artificial drains. "It triggers severe landslides, artificial floods and persistent waterlogging during rainy days, resulting in substantial loss of human and cattle lives and destruction of property. Unscientific earth cutting also degrades the environment and overall ecological balance," it said.
Deputy commissioner of Kamrup (M), Virendra Mittal, who is also the chairman of the district disaster management authority, has directed all concerned departments, together with enforcement agencies like revenue circle officials, city police, woodland division, PWD, shipping, soil conservation, planning and different regulatory our bodies, to not allow any earth slicing and earth filling task in the hilly terrains, water our bodies and in low-lying areas of the district.
"It is directed that no earth cutting and carrying of earth should be allowed from May 1 till the monsoon season is over. However, for any government scheme or any project of national importance, if earth cutting is required, then that may be taken into consideration on merit basis," the discharge added.
All concerned departments and regulatory our bodies had been asked to check all the permission for earth slicing and filling if any have been accorded in the present yr, and take essential steps to cancel those permissions forthwith in essentially the most prone areas prone to landslides and flash floods. City police have additionally been requested to take stern motion.
A liberate from the administration said unscientific and haphazard earth slicing and earth filling destabilizes herbal earth slopes and blocks herbal as well as artificial drains. "It triggers severe landslides, artificial floods and persistent waterlogging during rainy days, resulting in substantial loss of human and cattle lives and destruction of property. Unscientific earth cutting also degrades the environment and overall ecological balance," it said.
Deputy commissioner of Kamrup (M), Virendra Mittal, who is also the chairman of the district disaster management authority, has directed all concerned departments, together with enforcement agencies like revenue circle officials, city police, woodland division, PWD, shipping, soil conservation, planning and different regulatory our bodies, to not allow any earth slicing and earth filling task in the hilly terrains, water our bodies and in low-lying areas of the district.
"It is directed that no earth cutting and carrying of earth should be allowed from May 1 till the monsoon season is over. However, for any government scheme or any project of national importance, if earth cutting is required, then that may be taken into consideration on merit basis," the discharge added.
All concerned departments and regulatory our bodies had been asked to check all the permission for earth slicing and filling if any have been accorded in the present yr, and take essential steps to cancel those permissions forthwith in essentially the most prone areas prone to landslides and flash floods. City police have additionally been requested to take stern motion.
Ban on lifting earth till end of monsoon
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