Not only illegal mining but transportation of iron ore and manganese too is draining the State’s exchequer.
Consider this. The State Public Works Department (PWD) has incurred a whopping loss of Rs 1,700 crore in the form of damages to its road network due to transportation of iron ore and manganese during 2005-06. The annual royalty [...]

Mines and Geology is one of the many portfolios that Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy is in charge of. As he battles bribery allegations over illegal iron ore mining in Bellary, there’s another form of mining that’s flourishing illegally in the state.
Sand mining has resulted in ecological degradation and despite several checks it continues [...]

Fending off Opposition attacks on him on a bribery charge, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today announced in the state Assembly an “impartial inquiry” into illegal mining and declared that the government was willing to ban the mining itself if the legislature plumped for it.
Winding up a marathon debate in the Assembly, he rejected [...]

Launching a counter-attack over the bribery charges against him, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday accused the two previous governments of dereserving thousands of acres of forest land for the benefit of miners and offered to hold an impartial inquiry into all irregularities in mining activities during the last six years.
Speaking at length for [...]

NDTV had on Friday telecast a special report on the illegal mining activities in the Bellary district of Karnataka.
The state’s Chief Minister, after watching the report said that he felt ashamed and that the government will take action to curb the rampant child labour in this flourishing illegal industry.
“I have taken it very seriously. As [...]