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A+ A-Tadepalli: Andhra Pradesh government has announced that a “Sand Week” would be conducted from November 14 to 21 to solve the sand crisis in the State. Now over the past week, the situation has improved considerably and the mining has increased to 1.20 lakh tonnes on a daily basis. The number of Reaches has also increased from about 60 to over 90 in the past week, he said. The officials also said that the mining capacity would be increased from 1.2 lakh tonnes to 2 lakh tonnes in the coming week. In addition, by the time the Sand Week is over the stock points should be increased to 180, he said..