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KHUNTI, JAN 13 (UNI): Tractors of builders and real estate owners lifting illegal mineral sand from the banks of Kanchi River at Tamar Area, in Khunti on Tuesday. Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation witnessed environmental harassment and degradation caused by flood and drought type of situation, since the creation of the separate mineral rich tribal led population of Jharkhand on November 15th, 2000. UNI Photo 53U