Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Nov 19: Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner, Subodh Yadav, instructed the officials of the mines and geology department to ensure that the purpose, for which the global positioning system (GPS) was fitted to sand transportation trucks, was fulfilled without any exception. He reminded them that fitting of GPS was made mandatory for these vehicles to stop unlawful transportation of sand.

He was addressing a meeting of the officials from the mines and geology department, convened at his office on Thursday November 18. He made it amply clear to them that the above move, one among several such moves undertaken to prevent illegal transportation of sand to Kerala, should not be allowed to be wasted because of the negligence of the officials. He asked them to file detailed steps undertaken by them in this respect, with the deputy director of their department.

Replying to enquires made, officials of the department confessed that there has been some deficiency in the monitoring system. They said they have been keeping regular contact with I-Search Company, which had fitted this system, and that they have taken the residents of Naringana village on Kerala border into confidence, and have asked them to convey information about movement of illegal sand trucks over phone to them. They disclosed that they have also been making efforts to take other villagers living in the border area also into confidence.

The deputy commissioner told them that complaints about illegal sand transportation will be sternly dealt with, as the district administration has put lot of efforts including human resources to put this system in place.