Mining firms in Goa asked to give details of daily operations

18 APR, 2012, PTI
The Mines and Geology Department in Goa has issued orders to the mining firms in the state to provide details of their daily operations, thereby making it easy for the government to keep a tab on the exports.

The newly-appointed director of the Mines and Geology Department Prasanna Acharya has asked the mining lease holders to submit daily reports about the transportation of iron ore from the mining sites.

As per the order, the mines will have to provide details like the number of trucks ferrying the iron ore on a daily basis, information about ships and their carriage capacity, among other things.

The department has also directed the mining firms to submit information about the royalty challan payments, so that the records available at the ports could be tallied.

Acharya has said that steps are being taken to streamline the matters concerning mining, transportation and storage of ore.

In a different order, the department has asked the mining firms to keep only one exit for all the trucks ferrying ore from the extraction sites to the riverfront jetties, so that keeping a tab on the transportation would be easy.

According to the order, the mining lease holders will also have to submit all the documents pertaining to the leases.

The mining leases, signed during the Portuguese regime, are in Portuguese language and Acharya has asked these firm to get them translated into English before submission to the state government.

To check whether the mining leases have not gone beyond their designated geographical limits, they have also been asked to submit their survey number and also the Global Positioning Survey (GPS) coordinates.