From The Hindu
Center-Left Owned by Kasturi & Sons Ltd.Greens see red over Keralam government move to permit sand extraction in 17 rivers
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Society for the Protection of the Environment, Kerala (SPEK) says though the govt decision has been presented as a flood mitigation step, no environmental impact assessment appears to have been conducted. Activists also point out that this may serve as a pretext for indiscriminate extraction of sand…