AMRITSAR: Following acute shortage and soaring prices of sand and gravel, the farmers' organizations of border areas have come out in support of legal mining and have demanded from the government to allow the miners to carry out the legal excavation of major components of the concrete to save the construction industry.
"Till recent past, the cost of per trolley of sand and gravel used to be from Rs 9,000 to Rs 12,000 which has now gone anything between Rs 21,000 to Rs 24,000 per trolley," said leader of Border Area Sangarash Committee Rattan Singh Randhawa after a whirlwind tour of border villages and holding meeting with miners, sand and gravel dealers and those in the construction industry.
