Cement Energy Environment

72 Acute shortage of sand and a steep rise in price has forced builders and engineers to depend substantially on manufactured sand (M-sand) especially in Southern parts and some Western pockets of India. Some builders, who began to use M-sand as a temporary measure, now prefer it. Since the rate of river sand was more than or double to that of M-sand, buyers invariably preferred M-sand and as a result, many builders and engineers had now switched over to Conclusion M-sand. But M-sand has one disadvantage – that is due to their coarseness they are not preferred for plastering of walls when compared with natural river sand or pit sand. Vaastu Shastra – the traditional Indian system of architecture originating in India, says Building material must be free from traces of human body or animal. M-Sand is free of such material and is produced by crushing hard granite stone when compared to river sand that is produced naturally from weathered rock. 1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/national-green-tribunal-ban-fails-to-stop-sand-mining-in- meghalaya/articleshow/21738701.cms 2. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/m-sand/article33804013.ece References