Traders say that although online sale of sand has started on December 1, they are not getting chalans needed to get sand. Though a vernacular newspaper reported about long queues of trucks at Nisarpura for taking sand, Ao's press statement said the queues were of trucks meant for dumping sand at the warehouse. Traders also rued the mandatory Aadhaar and PAN detail requirement to buy sand, and claimed illegal mining of sand is still going on. Sand mining in the Patna region has been stopped since July this year. On Monday, the high court stayed the state government's new sand sale policy that came into effect from December 1 this year.

Source: The Telegraph December 05, 2017 18:45 UTC