Justice M B Shah, heading the Central government-appointed
inquiry Commission on mining has began inspecting several controversial mines,
to ascertain the ground realities of illegal iron ore mining in the coastal
state.
A senior mines department officer said due to paucity of time, Shah is likely
to only inspect a couple of mines as against his earlier plan to visit eight
mines.
Dr U V Singh, a member of the Commission, has been camping in Goa since Sunday
and eight teams constituted under him have already began inspecting various
mines.
Singh said the Commission will inspect all the 90 active mining leases and even
those mining sites which are reported to be dormant.
The Commission during their probe will pin-point the irregularities including
evasion of mining royalty, illegal extraction of ore and encroachment by mining
firms outside their lease areas.
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