Mandya: Mandya District Minister K.C. Narayanagowda has slammed officers of Mines and Geology Department for turning a ‘blind eye’ towards blasting in mines in areas surrounding KRS Dam and accused them of hand-in-glove with persons running illegal stone quarries.
“First of all you don’t visit the mining areas. You are totally ignorant about the quantity of stone quarried in the mines. Rampant illegal stone quarrying has been going on with the blessings of a few officers. People in the surrounding areas of the Dam will come to know about the blasting in mines but surprisingly it is not heard by officers. This is the classic case of fence eating the crop,” the Minister remarked during a meeting on the mining in the district at the DC’s office here yesterday.
