‘It is private property; trial blast consent not obtained’ ‘Government, officers are aware of accession treaty’ ‘No other royal family is treated in India like this’ ‘I am happy that the blasts have been stopped now’ Mysore/Mysuru: Member of the erstwhile Mysore royal family Pramoda Devi Wadiyar has opposed the trial blasts at Baby Betta…
Trial blast at KRS: Farmers launch ‘Go Back’ campaign
July 25, 2022Mandya: The week-long trial blast scheduled to be conducted from today by a team of scientists from the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CSIR-CIMFR), Jharkhand, to study the impact of stone quarrying in the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam area has met with stiff opposition by farmers who have launched a ‘Go Back’…
Live gelatin sticks dumped near Bebi Betta quarry
July 18, 2021Srirangapatna: Memories of a deadly dynamite blast, claiming at least six lives of those trying to dispose of gelatin sticks fearing Police search at a quarry site in Herenagaveli village of Chikkaballapura taluk in February this year, returned to haunt on Thursday at Bebi Betta in Pandavapura when a huge cache of live gelatin sticks…
Impose total ban on stone mining to save KRS Dam
February 1, 2021Melukote MLA C.S. Puttaraju urges Government Mandya: Melukote JD(S) MLA and former Minister C.S. Puttaraju has urged the Government to completely ban all stone mining activities in the surroundings of KRS Dam if mining posed a safety threat to the Dam. He was speaking after performing ‘Guddali Puja’ (ground-breaking ceremony) for road development works in…
1,250 gelatine sticks seized at Hassan village
January 27, 2021Special 24×7 teams formed to track mining activities at Baby Betta in Mandya district Mysuru/ Hassan: Hours after Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa directing the State officials to crackdown on illegal mining activities following a blast in Shivamogga killing six persons, the Internal Security Division has seized a huge cache of explosives at a village near…
Tahsildar shuts 30 stone quarries at Pandavapura
August 19, 2019Mandya: Following reports of stone crushers and miners violating the blanket ban on the use of explosives in mining and stone quarrying activities within 20-kilometre radius around the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam, Pandavapura Tahsildar has ordered the closure of more than 30 mining units. These mining units are functioning at Baby Betta Kaval stone…
Trial blasts at KRS Dam: Farmers to launch ‘Go Back’ campaign tomorrow
January 27, 2019Mandya: The trial blast scheduled to be conducted tomorrow (Jan.28) by a team of scientists from Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune, to study the impact of stone quarrying in the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam area has met with stiff opposition by farmers and members of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), who…
Mandya DC bans mining around KRS Dam
October 10, 2018Mandya: Mandya Deputy Commissioner N. Manjushree has banned mining, stone quarrying and all other allied activities in 20-kilometre radius around the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam. The DC will issue an order in this regard in the next two days. A decision to this effect has been taken at an emergency meeting of officials chaired…
Pandavapura Baby Betta land declared as ‘B-Kharab’
October 4, 2018Mysuru/ Mandya: The efforts of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family to get Khata for Baby Betta Amruth Mahal Kaval under Chinakurali hobli of Pandavapura taluk, has received a setback as Pandavapura Tahsildar D. Hanumantharayappa has clarified that the land is ‘B-Kharab’ and it is not possible to issue Khata of the land to anybody. ‘B-Kharab’…
BJP leader writes to DC on illegal mining
October 4, 2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi Vichara Manch State Secretary and BJP leader C.T. Manjunath has urged the Mandya Deputy Commissioner and State Chief Secretary to take all possible action against erstwhile Mysuru Royal Family Pramod Devi Wadiyar and her son Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar for allowing their land (Survey Number 1, Amruth Mahal Kaval) for illegal…
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