Animal Husbandry and district in-charge Minister Prabhu Chavan, responding to Congress MLA Sharanabasappa Gouda Darshanapur, said that it is possible for officials concerned to act against vehicles carrying sand beyond the permitted level and instructed Deputy Commissioner R. Ragapriya, Superintendent of Police C.B. Vedamurthy and officials of other departments who are responsible for preventing illegal sand extraction and overloading to take immediate legal action against those involved in such activity and show their efficiency.
Earlier, the MLA highlighted the “inability” of officials to take action against overloaded sand vehicles that are causing damage to roads in Yadgir district. He said that it has become “highly impossible” for these officials, including those from the Home Department, to prevent this menace.
Apart from this, several issues, including insufficient infrastructure in schools being run by the Government, lack of interest in repairing reverse osmosis plants and reaching compensation to families of farmers who committed suicide due to agrarian crisis and crop loss, came up for discussion during the Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) meeting in Yadgir on Monday.
