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Udupi: District Collector G. Jagdisha has launched a program to distribute sand to consumers through the Udupi e-Sand website and the App, making the sand available at affordable prices to the poor, free of any irregularities in the sale of sand.

District Commissioner G. Jagadisha, who was driving the sand sheeting on Monday, November 25, issued a trip sheet to lorry owners who registered online at the Heriyadka Sand Collection. Customers can reserve sand in advance through website.You can get a booking ID and OTP on this website by entering their details, address and details of the required sand, check the estimated cost and pay. 550 per metric tonne. As per the RTO protocol, a maximum of ten metric tonnes of sand is available per load. The app lorry owner will also have app, which will enter the details and address of the customer to be distributed. When sand is delivered to the customer’s doorstep, customers can show their OTP to the sand shipping truck drivers

Permission to dispose of the CRZ range of sand will not be shortage of sand supply in the coming days. With 150 trucks already registered in the district, people in the district should avail themselves of the facility, he said.

On the same occasion, the District Collector, who received information from the authorities on the removal of sand from the Swarna Baja Dam and the sand stocking, objected to DC not initiating the dredging, even though the second stage tender process had been completed. As of December 31, all tenders in the warehouse were disposed of, and the tender holders were instructed to bring a minimum of 50-60 loads of sand into the inventory and remove the sand from the vented dam area in a phased manner to meet customer needs.

According to Ranji Naik, senior land scientist at the Department of Mines and Geology, additional sand bars have been identified in the Swarna, Sitanadi and Papanashini rivers of the CRZ range. Of the 30 blocks identified in the non-CRZ range in the district, 7 blocks are already tender and 2 out of the 23 blocks have already been tendered.

In the inventory center are wired and 5 cc cameras mounted on four sides with check-post, where CC cameras are installed. Staff at the center will keep track of how much sand is being collected and how much sand is being distributed at the center. He added that KRIDL and the District Sand Steering Committee will take full control of the municipal corporation and the sand storage center for the dredging.

Udupi MLA K. Raghupathi Bhat, Kapu MLA Lalaji R Mendan, Additional Deputy Collector Sadashiva Prabhu, Udupi CMC Commissioner Anand Kallolikar, Taluk Panchayat President Sandhya Kamath, Gram Panchayat president Savitha Nayak, Vice president Harish Salian and other among were present.