Punjab Government Opens Its First Sales Centre for Sand & Gravel
The Punjab government opened its first sales centre in Mohali for selling sand and gravel to people at government rates. Mines and geology minister Harjot Singh Bains said his department will impose a fine of Rs 2 lakh if anyone was found carrying construction material that was extracted illegally. “We have 2 lakh metric tonne of supply at this centre and people can purchase at the government rates. One can buy the construction material at Rs 28 per cubic feet, he said. However, he pointed out that as the supply of mining material increases in the future, the rate of sand and gravel will be supplied in the range of Rs 15-16 per cubic foot. The Punjab government in August amended the 2021 sand and gravel mining policy to fix the rates of sand at Rs 9 per cubic feet and also the maximum retail price of gravel at Rs 20 per cubic feet, excluding transportation charges. The illegal sand mining was among the key issues in the 2022 state assembly polls.
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