Ranchi DC Manoj Kumar ordered City SP Kishor Kaushal and Inspector, Special Branch to direct their subordinate police stations to prepare and submit a list of individuals involved in unauthorised mineral trade and storage and locations used for this purpose.
Kumar issued these instructions while chairing the joint meeting of District Task Force Committee, District Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (DEIAA) and District Expert Assessment Committee (DEAC) on Thursday. He ordered the officials to conduct inspection drives at least ten days every month to check illegal mining.
Minerals should be stocked along business routes and on Government land, Kumar said. Brick kilns without Environmental Consent according to guidelines of National Green Tribunal should be allowed to continue operations, he added.
Ranchi DC commanded that the notified companies doing coal business in the name of dysfunctional companies too should be stopped. Illegal business of leakage coal has to be stopped, Kumar told the officials.
Addressing the officials, he ordered them to look into the cases of overloading vehicles with excavated minerals with Ranchi district and take necessary action. He specifically ordered District Mining Officer, Ranchi to investigate coal-laden trucks covered with tarpaulin sheets in CCl area.
lodge a FIR if any violation of rules is discovered, Kumar said. He also ordered Ranchi DMO to inform CMD, CCl about this in writing.