"Several issues related to sand such as its unavailability for the poor and its high prices and impact on Abua Awas Yojana have come to our notice. I would like to inform the House that our government will make sand free for non-taxpayers in the state," he said.

The main opposition BJP has attacked the Hemant Soren-led alliance government over alleged black marketing and unavailability of sand in the state. The saffron party alleged that the sand is being sold in buckets at a kilogram rate.

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