Andhra Pradesh: Bheemili society issues show cause notice on Erramatti Dibbalu
Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam district Mines and Geology department on Friday issued show cause notice to Bheemunipatnam Mutually Aided Cooperative Building Society, asking why action should not be taken against the society for illegally excavating earth and levelling 278.95 acres of land, including the ecologically sensitive Erramatti Dibbalu located along the Visakhapatnam-Bheemili Beach road.
The department asked the housing society to reply to the notice within 15 days.
The notice follows a complaint lodged by Jana Sena leader and GVMC corporator P.L.N. Murthy Yadav on July 18, citing that the land is located in the sensitive Coastal Regulation Zone 1 area.
Mines and Geology department inspected the land located in survey number 118/5A of Nerellavalasa village in Bheemili mandal. It found that the society dumped 39,454 cubic meters of gravel stones for developing a road in the area in violation of the Andhra Pradesh Minor Mineral Convention Rules, 1966.
It may be recalled that on orders of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), revenue and GVMC officials, led by joint collector K. Mayur Ashok, visited the Erramatti Dibbalu and checked out the damage caused at the environmentally sensitive site.
The joint collector ordered removal of a shed on the land, which had been constructed on government land. He asked officials to form monitoring teams and prevent all further activities on the land.
+had earlier been levelling the site by dumping lorry loads of external gravel to develop roads on the layout and form housing plots.
Several environmentalists complained to Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on heavy machinery being used to level the area.
Anticipating action from the government, the society relocated all its construction machinery and lorries from the site.
