ILLEGAL SAND MINING IN INDIA

India is a mega-diverse geographical country. Our environmental contribution to its rich biodiversity is protected by our strong legal framework. Despite its richness, we face multiple threats and challenges to our environmental sustainability. One among them is illegal sand mining, due to which environmental sustainability is affected and leads the invaluable assertions on economic & ecological growth. Here, as a socially ethical member of the society, we are discussing the efforts to curb illegal sand mining and balance ecological preservation for sustainable growth of the environment and examining the repercussions and other socio dynamics as the involvement of sand mafias.