Awaaz Foundation protests IAS officer's transfer

Written By Unknown on Senin, 29 Juli 2013 | 22.23

MUMBAI: NGO Awaaz Foundation has strongly protested the transfer of Durga Shakti Nagpal.

Nagpal had cracked down on illegal sand mining in Uttar Pradesh.

In a letter to Jayanthi Natarajan, union minister for environment and forests, Sumaira Abdulali, convenor Awaaz Foundation said, "Sand mining is a serious environmental disaster, threatening coastal and riverine ecology; it was brought to national attention when a series of assaults on activists (including myself), journalists and government officers were perpetrated by politically controlled sand mafias."

She has also enclosed a booklet 'The links between politicians and sand mining in and around Mumbai' published by Awaaz Foundation in 2012. The booklet was presented at the Convention of Biodiversity, Conference of Parties, where the issue of coastal sand mining was discussed for the first time in an International Convention through an NGO side event.

Abdulali said the international threat to biodiversity, water security and land security from sand mining is now an Internationally recognized issue, highlighted after the film 'Sand Wars', documenting sand mining all over the world, was released in Paris in May 2013.

"India is custodian of the International Convention on Biodiversity until October 2014. We have requested the MoEF that that sand mining should find a place in the agenda of the next convention on bio-diversity, and India should lead the way by cracking down against illegal sand mining," said Abdulali.


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