Deep nexus: Special teams to check stock at crushers in Haryana's Nuh

Geetanjali Gayatri

Chandigarh, July 26

Haryana will approach the Rajasthan Government for access to its eRavaana portal details while special teams will carry out a stock-checking exercise on the premises of the stone crushers in Nuh over the next week.

eRavaana monitors mining activity

• Earlier, Rajasthan had denied Haryana access to its entries in the eRavaana portal
• It allows tracking of mining material from mines to crushers and its further distribution

Sources said while Rajasthan had, in the past, denied Haryana access to its entries in the eRavaana portal, which allow tracking of mining material from the mines to the crushers and its further distribution, the state government would again approach the neighbouring state. “We have no way of ascertaining whether the stone and mining material coming from Rajasthan is legal or illegal. However, once it enters the state borders, the documents are checked and the details are entered into our system. These are entered into the system again at the stone crushers,” the Principal Secretary, Mines and Geology, Anurag Agarwal, said, adding that if the papers for the stock were produced, it was taken as legal. On the crushers operating in the no-mining zone, Agarwal said teams would be sent to Nuh to ascertain the stocks with the stone crushers in view of the rampant illegal mining in the district. “The teams will go and verify the stocks on the ground and match these with the entries in the eRavaana portal,” he said. Interestingly, in the past, cases of stocks being sent from Rajasthan to Haryana on fake receipts have also come to light.