A virtual meeting of the Cabinet held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The Cabinet granted approval to extend the operation of Dial 100 scheme with the pre-contracted firm at the approved rates of tender in the contract period for six months i.e. from 1st April to September 30, 2020 and again for six months i.e. October 01, 2020 to March 31, 2021.
The Cabinet granted approval to amend the Madhya Pradesh Sand (Mining, Transportation, Storage and Trading) Rules 2019. The amendments will ensure uninterrupted supply of sand minerals in the state. This will speed up construction work and create employment opportunities for workers. It will also have an impact on the revenue income of the state government.
According to the amendment, the period of sand mining in the sand mines approved in the state will be calculated from the date of issue of letters of intent in place of the date of contract. If the contract is not executed even after having obtained all the statutory permissions by a tenderer of the sand group, then the security deposit which deposited by him as penalty will be seized.
For the approval of mineral storage license a radius of 5 km from the mine has been restricted. After this, the contractor of sand mineral group and the contractor of sand mineral authorized by the government can be granted mineral storage license outside the 5 km limit and within 8 km radius from the approved mine in their favour. Government departments can be granted permission for extraction of sand mineral from the mines of the sand mineral groups are vacant in order to ensure supply of sand minerals in the works.
The Cabinet has approved a scheme for recovery of mineral revenue pending under the Department of Mineral Resources.