Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy seems to be struggling with the sand supply in the state, if one goes by the way he is handling the sand in the last 20 months.
He had stopped the sand quarrying hours after he assumed charge as chief minister on May 30, 2019, alleging that sand had been the major financial source of the opposition TDP.
He had closed all sand quarries and stopped the supply of sand for several months, despite the building workers’ starvation.
He brought in new policy assigning the excavation and supply tasks to the state government’s mineral development corporation.
Later, he divided the state into three regions and fixed prices for sand supply depending on the distance from the stock point to the delivery point.
Now, Jagan Mohan Reddy government had once again, perhaps for the third time, changed the policy, and handed over the excavation and supply tasks to a Delhi-based corporate company of the Jayapee Group.
The Jagan government also prohibited sand quarrying in the patta lands and allows only in the government lands, rivers, rivulets and streams.
Well, it is to be seen if Jagan government would succeed at least this time and makes sand available to the people on demand.