Potholes in Uttarakhand rivers due to illegal mining, HC told

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
DEHRADUN: Court commissioner Alok Mehra, appointed by the Uttarakhand high court to conduct site inspections and submit a report on the
to the ecology of several rivers".The HC directed the government to file an affidavit and submit a proper plan to stop illegal mining in the
rivers by December 6, after which the court can consider modifying its previous order banning dredging.The government had moved an
application on Thursday to allow dredging, saying the state is not only incurring a loss of Rs 500 crore annually, but
infrastructure-related development work is getting disrupted.