{"id":59934,"date":"2005-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-check-the-unprecedented-level-of-environmental-degradation-on-2-august-2005"},"modified":"2016-01-24T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T05:25:26","slug":"need-to-check-the-unprecedented-level-of-environmental-degradation-on-2-august-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-check-the-unprecedented-level-of-environmental-degradation-on-2-august-2005","title":{"rendered":"Need To Check The Unprecedented Level Of Environmental Degradation &#8230; on 2 August, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Need To Check The Unprecedented Level Of Environmental Degradation &#8230; on 2 August, 2005<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>                                          an&gt; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a>:  Need to check the unprecedented level of environmental degradation and ecological imbalance due to large scale mining of river beds in Kerala. \u2013 Laid.   <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRIMATI%20C.S.%20SUJATHA%20\">SHRIMATI C.S. SUJATHA <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=MAVELIKARA\">MAVELIKARA<\/a>): Large-scale sand mining on river beds is causing unprecedented level of environmental degradation and ecological imbalance in the State of Kerala.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sand mining is rampant in Kerala on the beds of all its 43 rivers and their branches and tributaries.\u00a0 The major rivers of Kerala \u2018Bharatapuzha\u2019 and \u2018Periyar\u2019 which could be called as the life lines of Kerala are subjected to uncontrolled mining taking the water level to an unprecedented low. The case is same with all other rivers and their tributaries.\u00a0 The fall in the water level is causing depletion of ground water in the surrounding land areas resulting in drying up of even drinking water sources besides having serious adverse impacts on the agriculture of the State which has been experiencing drought situation in recent years.\u00a0 The authorities appears to ignore the serious implication of the situation and the sand mafia is operating without any check.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I urge upon the Ministry of Environment to intervene in the situation to protect the environment from further degradation  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Need To Check The Unprecedented Level Of Environmental Degradation &#8230; on 2 August, 2005 an&gt; Title: Need to check the unprecedented level of environmental degradation and ecological imbalance due to large scale mining of river beds in Kerala. \u2013 Laid. \u00a0 SHRIMATI C.S. SUJATHA (MAVELIKARA): Large-scale sand mining on river beds is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Need To Check The Unprecedented Level Of Environmental Degradation ... on 2 August, 2005 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-check-the-unprecedented-level-of-environmental-degradation-on-2-august-2005\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Need To Check The Unprecedented Level Of Environmental Degradation ... on 2 August, 2005 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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