Sand sale management and monitoring system is the new way to buy sand in Andhra Pradesh AP, which was under the ministry of mining department.
This is one of the efficient ways to track the usage of the Sand, as it is one of our natural resources, which is essential for human living.
The following are the advantages of the SSMMS of making the sand available online in AP.
- Doorstep delivery for the consumers within 30KMs range.
- GPS tracking availability for the consumers who ordered online.
- Only allotted no.of metric tons will be granted further helps in reducing the waste.
- Tracking all the usage activities, further in reducing non-permissible activities.
Based on the usage, the consumers have divided into two types of categories
- General Consumer and 2. Bulk Consumer.
General Consumer is who wants to use the sand for his household purposes for example a new house construction or a renovation of his/her old house will comes under this category.
Bulk Consumers are the person/group who wants to use the sand for commercial purposes like real estates, govt. contracts, Private developments e.t.c., will falls under this category.
Now to buy sand online, you need to follow the below process which was made very easy by the government so that an illiterate can also buy it online on his own.
I will be explaining the process of how to buy a sand in the below.
Every general consumer should know that an individual can only book 500metric tones of sand in an year.
1.Visit website https://sand.ap.gov.in which is official in AP
2. Based on your usage an individual should register using their mobile number as below, now we will see general category.
3.Enter your Mobile Number tagged to Aadhaar number.
4.After verifying your mobile number please continue to Aadhaar number.
5.Next Please enter your present residential address
6.Then submit your registration, once you submit the registration you will get a user id, and then you will be asked, “Proceed to order sand”.
7.To order sand you should know three things, based on that you will be getting the allotted sand by system itself.
a. Type of work
b. Type of construction
c. Size of Construction
d. Maximum Permitted sand quantity will be generated by system only.
8.Please update the delivery address where the sand needs to gets delivered.
9.Once you entered stockyard district, stockyard name and stockyard sand available quantity and price will be generated automatically.
10.An order ID will gets generated along with date and price.
11.You have to pay the bill online and no offline payments encouraged.
12.If the place is under 30kms distance and if there are any tolls in between the delivery place, then toll charges has to be given by the consumer as per the toll receipt.
Note: Please be aware that there are some online transaction charges on selected payments.
Please utilize our sand properly because if we save nature, nature will save us.