Shimla: Recently, the government does not have adequate arrangements to stop illegal mining. How will illegal mining be stopped when there is a shortage of staff. Plans were also made to install CCTV cameras on the sites but this too has cooled down. The sites where the help of the drone was to be taken, but it is also a costly deal. In this case, the challenge for the government is how to stop illegal mining. While the government is suffering economic losses due to illegal mining in the state, the environment is being affected and the water level has gone down. At the same time, the state government has auctioned many sites to prevent losses from illegal mining. Even after this, illegal mining is on the banks of rivers and ravines in many areas of the state.

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There is a shortage of field staff in the department to stop illegal mining. In most districts, field staff are being employed in offices. This staff should handle files in offices or monitor illegal mining in the field. Both works are not possible simultaneously.

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The government had also given instructions to install CCTV cameras to monitor illegal mining in various districts of the state. But there were incidents of breaking of cameras and theft. Since then, plans to install cameras on the sites have cooled down.

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The government also used drone monitoring to monitor sites to stop illegal mining. This experiment has proved to be quite expensive, as the battery backup of the drone lasts for a maximum of 6 hours and it cannot be monitored for very long. Department officials say that it is not possible to monitor illegal mining at sites with CCTV and drones.