New Delhi: A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) member
in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday demanded constitution of a Joint
Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to go into alleged illegal
mining by Obulapuram Company in Andhra Pradesh.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, M V Mysura Reddy said
that the state government has granted a lease of 180 acres to
Obulapuram Mining Company and Anantapuram Mining Corporation
and added that both companies were doing illegal mining.
"They are doing the mining work illegally without any
mining lease, without any environmental clearance or without
any forest clearance. Materials worth thousand of crores have
been transported to China," he alleged.
Reddy said a JPC should be constituted to probe into the
irregular sanctioning of the mining leases, the irregular
mining in Obulapuram and in the entire Bellary Reserve Forest
Area in AP and Thumati and Vittalapuram villages in Karnataka.
He was supported by Left members Brinda Karat and Prasanta
Chatterjee (both CPI-M) and D Raja (CPI).
PTI
First Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 21:25