CURATED BY – LAKESH PANCHESHWAR | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Lalbarra, The courage of the Murum mafia in Lalbarra area is so high that they talk of stopping the way of the media representatives covering the incident, you must have heard this saying "Theft is theft and then there is a thrashing on top", still the administration is not taking any concrete action against these illegal Murum black traders,, Mining mafia is doing illegal excavation of Murum somewhere in the area every day and is getting rich, but the unfortunate thing is that by stealing the royalty of the government, the mafia is also causing loss to the government. Despite this, even after the media informed the responsible officials about the illegal excavation and transportation, the lack of action against the mining mafia in Lalbarra area shows the inactivity and negligence of the district administration and the mineral department. Due to the inactivity of the responsible, the government has to bear losses every day.

A similar case of illegal excavation and transportation was seen on Saturday, Murum was illegally excavated from a government pond in Naya Tola of Gram Panchayat Badgaon, falling under the District Panchayat Lalbarra, and dumpers were carrying Murum without permission. It was being transported from and the gravel filled in the dumpers was emptied at Sheetal Vihar in front of Panga pond. When media representatives reached the spot Naya Tola, where mining was going on, the citizens there, without coming in front of the media cameras, told the media verbally that since Friday evening the gravel is being taken from the government pond near the farm of Madanlal Nageshwar in dumpers and the gravel is being dug out with the JCB machine of Chaudhary of Khamaria..? The villagers also told that the dumper full of gravel was stopped by the villagers on Friday evening and asked where are you taking the gravel.. then the responsible representatives of the Panchayat told that this gravel is going to Lalbarra police station, so we let the gravel go. When Badgaon Secretary Nandkishore Bisen was discussed about the illegal excavation being done from the government pond built by the Gram Panchayat, he told that I do not have any information about the illegal mining of gravel from the pond. The names of Badgaon Sarpanch and Deputy Sarpanch are coming to the fore in this entire matter of excavation from the government pond...? The information about the illegal excavation from the government pond in Nayatola under Gram Panchayat Badgaon has been given by the media representatives to Tehsildar Lalbarra and Sub-Divisional Officer Revenue Waraseoni over the phone. When the District Mineral Officer was informed on his mobile about the serious matter, he did not receive the call. Now it has to be seen what major action the responsible people take on the matter of illegal excavation which has reached its peak in Lalbarra area..?

This is what they say..

Inform the mineral department about the matter, send a message and talk to the SDM

Mrinal Meena (Balaghat Collector)