The Odisha mines department has initiated a set of steps on closed mines. This was revealed in a letter (364/DM) dated 16 Jan, 2015 sent by director of mines to deputy director of mines, Joda circle. Acting on the directive, the deputy director of Joda circle has asked mining officers to take possession of mines that have lapsed or whose renewal ‘determined or refused’. Besides, a directive has been issued to take possession of undisposed mineral stocks by 31 Jan, 2015. The mining officers were asked to conduct a technical enquiry (TE) and prepare a checklist of pending renewal of mining leases (RML) and submit it to Keonjhar Collector and director of mines within 7 days.
In the letter, mining officers of Joda Circle, LD Nayak and SK Behera were also asked to send mining inspectors to 29 lease areas to assess the value of minerals. They were instructed to find out whether the size of the stocks in the mines is matching with the data in their records.
There are 29 mines in this list including two mines of Arjun Lodha, three mines of BK Mohanty, two mines of S Pradhan, one each of BPM, Essel Mining, RP Sao, SN Pal, MR Das, RB Das, SN Dasmohapatra, DK Rathore, Mineral Trading Syndicate, Jagdish Mishra, KC Pradhan and four mines of DC Jain.
Note: This is to disclaimer that news is been obtained from authentic sources, however, miners were not present to clarify their name as mentioned.
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