Manufactured sand is a replacement for natural or river sand for mortar or concrete construction. Manufactured sand is made from hard igneous rock by crushing. The crumpled sand is of cubical shape with grounded ends, graded, washed and used as a building material. Sand is an important element in production of two most used construction constituents viz. mortar and cement concrete. Conventionally, natural sand, which is formed by natural enduring of rocks over many years, is favored as fine aggregate. Financial improvement powering the development of housing and infrastructure generates enormous demand for building materials like sand. The illegal mining of sand from river beds is posing a severe threat to the atmosphere such as corrosion of banks and riverbeds stimulating landslides, loss of vegetation on the bank of rivers, depleting underground water tables etc. Therefore, sand withdrawal from beds of rivers is being banned or controlled. Regulating the withdrawal of sand along ri...