 In Kashmir after the center read down article 370 on August last year, this is for the first time ever non-local companies have bagged a majority of contracts from the extraction of minerals from the water bodies of Kashmir. Scores of heavy extraction vehicles are now deployed at Nala Rambiara in Lassipura area. These have been extracting stones, boulders and other construction material now for nearly a month. These new contractors have begun their extraction work on the mineral blocks without environmental clearance. After UT, so definitely now the outsider players have came and participated. Now it has been made mentally for every extraction there should be environmental clearance and pollution control board should give a certificate consent to operate. As on date we are continuously seizing had made a lot of seizures regularly seizures are being done for the illegal extractions in order was there can be extraction for which police is also working. Concernedistic administration is also working. To operate on any mineral block you need a letter of intent by district magistrate environmental clearance from department of geology and mining as well as consent to operate from the pollution controlled board. News click team spoke to a local who's also a sand contractor in this area to understand what is happening in this region. A major change that has been set in when it comes to economic activities in Jammu and Kashmir is that now mind of business is out of Kashmir valley.