Apartment builders are here facing great difficulty in procuring sand for construction activity due to the State Government’s indecision over the sand mining issue. According to members of the Visakha Apartment Builders Association (VABA), construction work at a few hundred sites in the city has come to a standstill for the past one-month or so.
President of VABA, P Anand Kumar, said that sand was an important ingredient in civil construction and due to the ban on mining, there had been no supply of sand. Construction activity has stopped due to the shortage of sand, he said and added that the association members had met the District Collector N Yuvaraj and he had assured them that the issue will be addressed in the next few days.
Vice-President KS Krishna said: About one lakh workers are engaged in the apartment construction sector and they have been idle since the last one month. They are poor people who survive on daily wages and they are hit badly.
The indecision on sand mining has caused a scarcity of sand production.
Source: The Hindu Business Line
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