Joint Secretary in the Union Mines Ministry, G Srinivas, in
an October 25 letter to the Goa government, has said that 44 mines exceeded the
20 per cent targeted production limit.
“Of these, IBM has taken action against 19 of such mines
in Goa which had exceeded the limit of extraction, and initiated action against
balance 25 mines in terms of Mineral Conservation and Development Rules (MCDR),”
Srinivas says.
The letter states that aggregated production from all the 114 mines is within
the permissible 15 per cent of targeted run-of-mines production in the approved
mining plans.
Srinivas has asked Goa government to conduct environment impact study through
Goa State pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to ascertain impact of the violations
of extraction limit.
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