PANJIM: Fearing a total shut down of mining industry, people dependent on mining have blamed Goa government for not curbing illegal mining, when it was just taking root in the state.
PANJIM: After Public Accounts Committee (PAC) fiasco on tabling of report pertaining to illegal mining scam in the state, it’s time for Shah Commission to continue its investigation.
A team of Shah Commission comprising member Dr U V Singh will be arriving in Goa next week. Officials said that the team would go through the documents related to the taxes paid on the export of mining.
The Goa Mines and Geology Department has ordered the suspension of two iron ore and bauxite mines which found mention for alleged illegality in the controversial Public Accounts Committee (PAC) draft report.
Goa Speaker had dismissed the committee report on illegal mining as ‘a draft'
With the Public Accounts Committee report on mining having failed to make it to the Goa Assembly, the former PAC chief, Leader of the Opposition and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Manohar Parrikar, has vowed to come out with a “Parrikar Accounts Committee Report” to expose alleged irregularities of the Digambar Kamat government on the mining issue.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman, Mr Manohar Parrikar, today said that he will wait and watch for the Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker to take a call on the illegal mining report submit
While imposing a ban on mining in Karnataka’s Bellary district in July this year, the Supreme Court had reasoned that the massive environmental damage caused by excessive mining impinges on the con
Goa Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is understood to have expressed fears that if illegal mining in the state is not curbed, even the legal mines here will face closure, highly-placed so
PANJIM: Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA) has said that the control on the exports of iron ore from the state is not a solution for the problems prevailing in the state.
