Mandya: With many organisations, intellectuals and the farming community making fervent appeals to ban stone quarrying in the vicinity of KRS Dam and Pandavapura taluk, Mandya Deputy Commissioner Dr. M.V. Venkatesh on Monday said that stone quarrying in the vicinity of KRS Dam in Srirangapatna taluk of the district has been wholly banned.
Briefing reporters here yesterday, Dr. Venkatesh said that there were 36 stone quarrying units operating in the vicinity of KRS and a ban was imposed earlier. But the quarry owners succeeded in bringing a stay to the ban from the Court, following which they continued with quarrying. Following complaints of illegal and indiscreet quarrying, a team of more than 25 top officials raided the quarry sites, when gross violation of rules was discovered in most of the units.
