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HP Crushers Council plead for permission to resume operation
Mandi, Mar 13: The Crushers Council of Himachal Pradesh has expressed concern over inordinate delay in granting permission to restart the crushers which had been closed by the blanket ban slapped on September 24 last year by the high court on 314 crushers in the state.
Mandi, Mar 13: The Crushers Council of Himachal Pradesh has expressed concern over inordinate delay in granting permission to restart the crushers which had been closed by the blanket ban slapped on September 24 last year by the high court on 314 crushers
in the state.
Council chairman O N Hazri told newspersons here last evening that only eight crushers had been given the permission to resume operation.
He lamented that the high court order had not only spelt disaster for the crusher owners who had taken loans ranging between Rs 20 lakh and 40 lakh from the financial institutions, but also retarded the development causing loss of crores of rupees. Nearly 20,000 workers had been rendered jobless. Construction work of the government and the common people had come to a virtual halt. Besides this, the fund-starved state government was being deprived of the annual revenue of Rs 2.8 crore.
Describing the ban as ''unjust and arbitrary,'' he regretted that the crusher owners had been forced to face untold hardship. The crushers had been set up by complying with all the formalities and obtaining no objection certificates from the departments concerned. Hazri lamented that as a result of stress, a crusher owner Manohar Lal Mahajan of Damtal recently died of heart attack and another J K Mahajan of Bhambla suffered a serious heart attack and remained in the PGI Chandigarh. Crusher owners were currently in ''debt and distress'' and justice should be done to them, he pleaded.
Bureau Report
He lamented that the high court order had not only spelt disaster for the crusher owners who had taken loans ranging between Rs 20 lakh and 40 lakh from the financial institutions, but also retarded the development causing loss of crores of rupees. Nearly 20,000 workers had been rendered jobless. Construction work of the government and the common people had come to a virtual halt. Besides this, the fund-starved state government was being deprived of the annual revenue of Rs 2.8 crore.
Describing the ban as ''unjust and arbitrary,'' he regretted that the crusher owners had been forced to face untold hardship. The crushers had been set up by complying with all the formalities and obtaining no objection certificates from the departments concerned. Hazri lamented that as a result of stress, a crusher owner Manohar Lal Mahajan of Damtal recently died of heart attack and another J K Mahajan of Bhambla suffered a serious heart attack and remained in the PGI Chandigarh. Crusher owners were currently in ''debt and distress'' and justice should be done to them, he pleaded.
Bureau Report