Pradeep Ramteke
Editor-in-Chief
Illegal sand and sand mining is going on everywhere in Chandrapur district. However, no officer or employee concerned is seen paying necessary and legal attention to illegal mining in the district.
Due to this, the earnings of thieves involved in illegal sand and sand mining in Chandrapur district have increased by a hundred times and has the practice of covering up this earnings behind the scenes become established at the administrative level? This question has arisen among the citizens of the district.
Therefore, to curb illegal mining in Chandrapur district, there is a feeling among the citizens that an IPS officer like Anjana Krishna should be promoted as the District Superintendent of Police of Chandrapur district.
The reality in Chimur assembly constituency is that cowardly officers and employees allow illegal mining of sand and gravel to run rampant. While illegal mining worth crores of rupees has been done in Chimur taluka, the concerned officers in Chimur taluka or Chandrapur district have not dared to take criminal action against the illegal miners.
It is a fact that illegal mining worth crores of rupees has been done in Chimur taluka over a period of 11 years. The rampant illegal mining of gravel was and is still going on on the same agricultural land where the poor citizens were given agricultural leases by the administration for their livelihood.
The agricultural land given to the poor for their livelihood has now been turned into a huge pit due to legal and illegal mining. Due to this, the agricultural land to which the leases of agricultural land were given is no longer worth cultivating. This is called the method of depriving the poor citizens of their basic rights without beating them with sticks and without force….
The public opinion is that the officers and employees in whose jurisdiction illegal mining has taken place and is continuing should be dismissed from service and criminal action should be taken against them by the relevant ministers of the Maharashtra government. Along with this, there is also a public debate that compensation should be recovered from them under illegal mining.
The case of illegal mining of turpentine in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra has reached the whole world and the threat given by the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar to IPS officer Anjana Krishna regarding not taking action against those who illegally mine turpentine is seriously damaging.
Since the threat given to an IPS officer regarding non-action is an open invitation to corruption, will action also be taken against Ajitdada Pawar? This is an important issue.
Also, since the BJP government had a system of protecting those with criminal backgrounds, they should not have any leeway with honest officers!
But, even after the threat of Finance Minister Ajitdada Pawar, IPS officer Anjana Krishna took legal action against 20 people involved in illegal mining of muruma.
Who will investigate the illegal mining of sand and muruma in Chimur taluka under whose pressure and blessings? This question is even more serious!
