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The stone miners, who were operating in the neighhouring village, Ushmapur, some two kilometres away, were moving closer to Rajawas after a gap of eight years..
Environmentalists warned that these mines are also drying up the regions groundwater, polluting the skies.The latest report by the Haryana state government showed that Mahendragarh, the district under which Rajawas falls, has the first traces of groundwater only at a depth of 2,000 feet.. Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director (research and advocacy) at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), said that the Aravallis act as a green fence for the already vulnerable Delhi-NCR region...
The government of Haryana is planning a stone mine at the Rajawas Village in Haryana, which is located at the Aravallis foothills | Danish Mand Khan, ThePrint Ambiguity around Aravalli ..
State environment departments often use the lack of official demarcation of the range to omit hillocks and approve mining activities, said Kailash Meena, an environmental activist who has worked extensively to stop mining on the Aravallis...
In May this year, the Supreme Court, while asking the state governments of Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi and Gujarat not to give any fresh mining leases in the Aravallis, ordered that a committee be set up to prepare a uniform definition of the Aravalli hills and range...
