Do minority rights have something to do with quarrying rights? Sure, if an order of the Kerala State Minorities Fee is something to go by.
In its June 26, 2024 order, A A Rasheed, the Fee chairman, requested the State Setting Impression Evaluation Authority (SEIAA) to offer an environmental clearance certificates for working a quarry to at least one Mathew J inside a month and to submit a report back to the Fee.
Mathew had approached the Fee after he didn’t get the clearance for stone quarrying on his land in Vellad village, Kannur, and sought its intervention to make sure that he, a member of the minority Christian group, will get safety and equal justice envisaged by the Structure.
The applicant contended that whereas his land additionally fell within the ‘medium hazard’ zone, the appliance of one other quarry proprietor who moved the SEIAA the identical day as he did and whose land additionally fell within the ‘medium hazard’ zone was advisable for clearance with out objection.
In its June 26 order, the Fee mentioned, Mathew had furnished all obligatory paperwork for getting the certificates and directed the SEIAA to concern him the identical inside one month of the receipt of the order and to submit a report. Sources within the SEIAA, instructed The Indian Express that the Authority has determined to hunt authorized opinion on the order to resolve the longer term plan of action.
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