Ganesh Vishwakarma, Panna2 hours ago
Panna district of Madhya Pradesh is famous for diamond mines, but now this gem has become a problem for the forests of this region. Here in September, the crowd of diamond seekers increased. Here 20 thousand people are being illegally excavated in search of diamonds. For this, even the roots of trees are being cut.
Actually, Panna is about 20 km away from the district headquarters, a dam is being built on the Runjh river. It was excavated. When people filtered the soil that came out in it, they found some diamonds. It was from here that the hopes of the people woke up and they started digging around.
When the news spread, apart from Madhya Pradesh, diamond seekers also started arriving from the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh. Now these people have reached the forest by moving beyond the banks of the river. In the last 3 days, 15 bright diamonds have been deposited in the diamond office, whereas so many diamonds did not reach even in a month.
Who dug pits wherever he found space
When the Bhaskar team reached for investigation, there was a competition to dig pits in the forest. Wherever he found the place, he started digging. The forest is full of sieve, sieve, shovel. Some pits are of three to four feet and some are up to 10 feet deep. People have hollowed out the roots of many trees.
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The collector said on the excavation of the forest – will get the investigation done
We spoke to Panna Collector Sanjay Kumar Mishra. He said that a meeting would be conducted with the officials of the Forest Department and Revenue. If illegal mining is taking place in the area, then a joint team of forest department, police and revenue officials will take action.
Ranger JP Mishra of Vishramganj said that a large number of people are engaged in mining towards the forest. There is a meeting of the Forest Department with the district administration today (October 1) regarding this. A decision will be taken in this and soon action will be taken to stop illegal mining of the forest.
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About the emerald and the diamonds found there
Forest will be cut for diamonds in Bakswaha of Chhatarpur district
The government is preparing to cut 2.15 lakh trees of this forest for 3.42 crore carats of diamonds.
3.42 crore carats of diamonds are estimated to be buried in the forest land of Bakswaha. To extract these diamonds, a forest of 382.131 hectares will be destroyed. On this land, the forest department counted the trees, which got 2 lakh 15 thousand 875 trees. All these trees will be cut. In these, about 40 thousand trees are of teak. Apart from this, there are also medicinal trees like Kem, Peepal, Tendu, Jamun, Bahera, Arjuna. click here.