Meeting of the district-level task force committee formed for preventing illegal mining and transportation of minerals held under the chairmanship of collector here the other day.
The mine officer informed the meeting that mineral revenue worth Rs 229.87 crore were collected up to June, against the targeted amount Rs 1142.32 crore for the financial year 2013-14. From June 25 to July 29, 24 cases of illegal transportation of minerals were registered and Rs 2.55 lakh fine recovered and remitted the amount in the Government head. The meeting was informed about the royalty to be recovered from the construction agencies and departments against the minerals used construction works.
Additional collector instructed all the departments related to construction works and construction agencies to provide information immediately and asked to mine officer to submit the progress in this regard at the time limit meeting. The mine officer was instructed to provide information about the market price of different gown minerals and the present royalty rate to the departments and institutions involved in construction works.
In the meeting, SECl was instructed to give information related to probable requisition of areas coming under SECl to the Mining department. For effective control on illegal mining and transportation of minerals, members of the Task Force Committee, revenue, forest, mining and police departments were asked to take action as per the rule after registering cases under their jurisdiction. Additional collector Ravi Prakash Gupta, R Ekka, Iffat Aara, municipal commissioner Alok Chandrawanshi, Katghora DFO S Venkatachalam, mining officer Dr DK Mishra and other officers were present at the meeting.