Ranchi DC Manoj Kumar on Wednesday held a meeting to review mining activities at coal mines, crushers, balu ghats and brick kilns done illegally. It was decided in the meeting that inspection of leased mines will be done by handing a over list of mines to circle officers and a similar list will be handed over to forest officials as well. Kumar instructed the officials to conduct raids at illegal mines, stone crushers and brick kilns and close units operating without proper license. He also asked the electricity department to cut electricity connection to those units and directed mining officials to conduct raids for 7-8 days in a month.
Kumar also said that illegal units should be demolished with the help of the task force and asked officials to ensure that such units do not operate further.
An instruction was also issued by the DC to the DTO regarding inspection of trucks originating from illegally mined areas like Mcluskiganj and Khalari. The meeting was attended by DFO Ranchi, Rajiv lochan Bakshi; Additional Collector, SK lal; DTO Ranchi, Nagendra Paswan and other officials of district administration.