| dc.description.abstract | The world develops every day whereby the requirements of mankind to fulfil its need will never come into an end. Construction industry has become one of the booming industries that fulfil this need. Relation to such an industry, sand has become an essential natural resource for construction undertakings. Societies recognize a country/ economy to be in developed status from their infrastructural facilities. Thus, most countries incline to advance their infrastructure facilities. For each of these, constructors utilize sand as a vital component which illustrates the significance of this natural resource. The problem of this research paper is to discuss on illegal sand mining in Sri Lanka. Sand has been commercialized and mining has expanded rapidly, which has resulted increments in the supply chain of sand throughout the time. And due to various loopholes in the legislation and the monitoring mechanisms the offenders go unpunished destroying the natural assets of the country. Although, Sri Lanka has recognized this issue, the current legislation and monitoring system are consisted with defects. Therefore the main objective of the research paper would be to examine the challenges and loopholes of the available domestic legal mechanism and to search answers through an analysis of Indian and South African jurisdictions, in order to curb illegal acts. The information regarding this will be derived from primary sources; books, conventions, legislations of Sri Lanka, India and South Africa since this research is intend to discuss about the loopholes of the prevention systems. Secondary sources; journals and electronic data bases will be used to elaborate vital concepts such as sustainable development, good governance etc. that relate to illegal sand mining in Sri Lanka. To conclude, the paper will emphasize on the loopholes of law as well as the defective mechanisms in Sri Lankan system and would propose new recommendations which Sri Lanka could implement as successfully done in selected jurisdictions, where those countries required to set more effort in order to curtail illegal sand mining. | en_US |
