The Truth Behind The News Stories About Illegal Beach Mining In Tamil Nadu

The following video gives information about the various news articles circling around on the internet about the illegal beach mining in Tamil Nadu. Some of them are old and have wrong facts, while some are updated with the latest developments in the case and contain the real facts. The private heavy mineral mining company VV Minerals, India, owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan is given a green chit by the Central Government long ago, yet these old news articles make it all confusing. Hence, watch further to find out the truth behind the illegal mining scam of Tamil Nadu.

VV Mineral’s Responsibility Towards The Local Community In Tamil Nadu

VV Minerals the top heavy mineral mining company in Tamil Nadu based in Tisayanvilai. They have various policies that are formed to benefit the local communities in Tamil Nadu. The most prominent advantage of VV Minerals existence is that they provide employment to the locals. They employ about 7000 people presently. Every year they distribute free notebooks to schools in the local areas. They also help in the improvement of basic infrastructural facilities for the schools, for example providing them with benches desks and blackboards.

Last year VV Minerals had conducted a Dengue fever camp and a blood donation camp. They also held eye camps for the local people. They have also constructed a permanent health centre for the public where they can avail free health checkups all round the year.

Other things that VV Minerals, India does are construction of bus shelters and donations for construction of churches, mosques and temples. VV Minerals is a privately owned company which is owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan. Within two decades of its existence they have revolutionized the beach mineral mining industry for the good in the entire nation.

How Is The Raw Material Transported From VV Minerals

VV Mineral is the leading companies that conduct heavy mineral mining in Tamil Nadu. They are India’s biggest mining, manufacturers and exporters of Garnet. They have been awarded as the ‘Number One Garnet Exporters’ of our country. They also undertake Zircon mining, Rutile mining and Ilmenite mining. It is family grown business started by Mr. S Vaikundarajan, Chairman of VV Group of companies.

They have 3 huge warehouses near their mining sites.

The top notch transport facilities owned by VV Minerals helps in transporting the raw materials from the warehouses to the port facilities.

After the raw material is transported to the port, the next step is to load the minerals on the ship.

After the minerals are loaded these ships go to different places in Europe, USA, South Africa, Middle East and East Asia.

The MEAI Urges The New PM To Uplift The Ban

The following video contains information about the MEAI urging the new government to uplift the mining ban in Goa and Odisha.  It also provided information about their mining activities in India. They are the largest  Ilmenite manufacturers and exporters in India. They are the first private ilmenite exporters of India. VV Minerals India has a huge market share in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and USA. They are based in Tamil Nadu and the company is owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan.

The Truth Behind The Illegal Beach Mining In Tamil Nadu By VV Minerals

The video footage provided below is the revelation of how VV Minerals, India was tricked into a scam they were never a part of. According to the footage, the main person responsible for this entire misunderstanding was Mr. Daya Devdas. The video clearly shows how a group of men who have planned the conspiracy against VV Minerals, India, only because of the envious nature of one man, i.e. V Sundaram.

The privately owned heavy mineral mining company owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan, has been swindled into a illegal heavy mineral mining scam that they never did.

The other members who were tricked into it were the brothers and managing directors of the company, namely, Mr. Jegatheesan and Mr. J. Muthurajan.

These videos are featured on the following blogs, to find out how this whole conspiracy was planned visit: http://www.beachminerals.org/video-home/

Free Books Distribution Camp On World Day Against Child Labour By V. V. Minerals

On June 12, 2014, which is celebrated as World Day against Child Labour, VV Minerals, India owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan carried out an initiative to benefit poor school children and workers family living in the area by giving them free notebooks. In order to improve the quality of education of the society and community the management of VV Minerals held camps of free books distribution at various establishments of the company.

The ‘Education for all’ campaign that they called it was held at Tuticorin, Thirunveli, Kanyakumari, Peramabalur and Trichy districts in Tamil Nadu. All the nearby schools were given free notebooks, with a total number of 25000 books distributed overall.

This initiative encompasses more than 200 schools in and around the five districts. In addition, the endeavour is aimed at providing easy access to learning and enlightenment to the poor and needy students who can’t afford to buy notebooks and right to free education is a dream.

Speaking about VVM’s efforts to empower the school students and create a sustainable educated environment around their community, Mr. Vaikundarajan, Founder Chairman & Managing Director – V V Group of Companies, said: “On World Day Against Child Labour, we are a staunch supporter of rights of child and are against any form of child labour. This is just a small step forward to bring smiles in the lives of school students in various locations as a socially responsible company.  We are fully committed to fostering a favourable environment around our workplace and make it a better place by enriching the lives of school kids in a sustained manner. Going forward, we also plan to open up Library cum learning centre in primary schools in a phased manner.”

V.V. Mineral is India's largest heavy mineral mining, Manufacturer and Exporter of heavy minerals. They deal with zircon mining, garnet mining and titanium ores like rutile mining and ilmenite mining.

VV Minerals Chairman Vaikundarajan Under Scanner For Illegal Sand Mining May Not Be At Fault

Finally there seem to be some developments in the illegal sand mining case of Tamil Nadu because of which the government had placed a ban on heavy mineral mining. There was a news article recently published on The Hindu Business line on May 30, 2014, which mentioned that the Madras High Court has ordered the investigations to be concluded in one month’s time.

Previously, there were a couple of more news reports in Deccan Chronicle that suggested that VV Minerals was given the green card by the Central Government. Also, on the Business Standard news portal, there was a news story which stated that there is no evidence stating that there was any illegal activity conducted by the company owned by Mr. S. Vaikundarajan.

The man who was under the scanned for illegal sand mining of minerals worth 96k crore, may in fact not be at fault. Because according to Jaideep Prabhu, a journalist for DNA news portal in his news article on April 28, 2014, the four allegations put on the private companies who conduct heavy mineral mining like VV Minerals, India had perfectly logical explanations. The first was that the company did not allow some people in their premises, wherein it is actually illegal for them to allow people who are not authorized by government officials. The second was about the missing amounts of thorium in the report presented in the Lok Sabha. According to the allegation, they suspected the private companies of hoarding or illegally exporting thorium. However, the government does not even give private companies permission for thorium mining.

Similarly the Third and Fourth have reasonable explanations.

The Hopes Are High For The Ban To Be Uplifted

 R Balaji describes the heavy mineral mining industry’s current scenario in a recent news story on the Hindu Business line. He states that the industry is currently at a standstill because the Government has banned beach mineral mining across the state last year in the month of August, due to some complaints of illegal sand mining. 

The government apparently had ordered an enquiry last year but no verdict has been passed yet. VV Minerals, India, the largest heavy mineral mining company in the country is responsible for more than three quarters of the beach mineral mining activity in Tamil Nadu. However, it is shut down because of this ban, resulting in unemployment to over many thousands of people and loss of the nation’s economy. 

In a statement given by Mr. V Subramanian, the Managing Partner of VV Minerals, India, he stated that this ban has handicapped the domestic industry. According to his knowledge, the industry contributes to about Rs. 3500 crore in foreign exchange. The State Government is also losing out on annual revenues of Rs. 200 crore in royalty apart from taxes, he said

With the unimaginable losses already suffered by the private companies dealing with heavy mineral mining, they are collectively urging the government to fasten the process of this inquiry and punish only the ones who have done wrong instead of making the entire industry suffer.

VV Minerals is privately owned by Mr. S Vaikundarajan. The top management includes Mr. V. Subramanian, Mr. J Muthurajan and Mr. Jegatheesan.