Concern Over Move For Deep Sea Sand-Mining

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 11, November 2011

It was at a workshop on Kerala's approach paper to the 12th Five Year Plan held here on Wednesday that Finance Minister K.M. Mani came up with the proposal. Addressing the workshop, he said it was not difficult for the Kerala economy to achieve a 10 per cent growth rate, provided it was able to mobilise revenue from non-conventional sources such as offshore mining of sand. Read the full report here.

Source: T. Nandakumar, The Hindu, Thiruvananthapuram.

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