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He said the situation was such that truck operators were mostly in a state of fear. “The GPS installed are of poor quality and the officers are harassing truck operators under the pretext of checking the equipment,” he said. Transportation of sand from Dakshina Kannada to Udupi district without permission should be stopped,” Mr.
Shetty said. more-inMembers of the Udupi District Truck Owners and Operators’ Association, who transport extracted sand, staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Thursday demanding withdrawal of the rule making installation of GPS in their trucks mandatory. Since there was shortage of sand and there were only two months left for monsoon to hit the district, the administration should allow extraction of sand at all sand bars, he said..