Three cheers for nalsa

Good move... considering the growing need for river sand by the construction industry and the environmental issues cropping up due to excessive sand mining by the sand mafia. It is said that, due to sand mining, the river bed goes deep and that the capacity of water to dissipate to riparian lands is diminishing, resulting in drought on either side of the rivers. Deepening of the rivers results in landslides also.

Some good policy needs to be framed which will protect the rivers and cater needs of the construction industry also and most importantly it should be stringently executed.