It was mentioned in the application that the khatedari lease holders were issuing rawannas for a distance of 600 to 700 km for a truck having a capacity of almost 20-30 tons whereas mineral allegedly being filled was hardly 2-3 tons simply to legitimise illegality. The area of leases falls within 5km of the riverbeds, non-compliance of the sustainable sand mining guidelines 2020 issued by MoEF and CC, mining being undertaken in monsoon season, which creates a pit in khatedari land and stops the recharge/replenishment of the riverbed by the water being flown in the adjoining fields and permission of mining without replenishment study, it said.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has made a mandatory provision even for small lease holders to carry out a replenishment study. But none of the holders in Rajasthan has conducted the study.