Green bench orders arrest of Principal Secy mines

The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal has ordered the arrest of state’s Principal Secretary, Environment and Forest, R K Verma for his failure to comply with its directions in a case pertaining to illegal mining and dumps.

vice president of Federation of India Mineral Industries (FIMI), said.

As per the SC order, Rehabilitation and Reclamation (R&R) plans have to be approved by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) for resumption of mining. But even in mines where R&R plan has been implemented, things are not moving.

State Forest department had pointed to violations by firm

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has paved the way for Sesa Goa, an arm of the Vedanta Group, to resume mining in 164 hectares (ha) of land in the Nirthady forest of Chitradurga.

The NGO seeks direction for a probe against all those involved directly or indirectly in illegal mining

The Dharwad-based non-government organisation, Samaj Parivartan Samudaya (SPS) has sought fresh probe against some of the mining companies for alleged illegal mining and accumulation of wealth. It has also sought probe against some politicians like D K Shivakumar, the sitting member of legislative assembly from Kanakapura.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Bombay High Court order directing the Goa government to file FIRs against all miners named in the Justice MB Shah Commission report for alleged violation of lea

Report on ore linkage is almost in the final stage

Govt refuses to budge preparing the field for face-off

The tussle between the state government and miners over the recent order on mining stamp duty has hit a new pitch as the former refused to relax the deadline for collection of the levy.

With the ban on iron ore mining in Goa pushing bank deposits to a negative growth of 11 per cent during 2012-13 and the non-performing assets (NPAs) in the mining-related sectors too rising steadil

The first part of the report is believed to contain preliminary observations, suggestion and overall findings

Justice M B Shah Commission, inquiring into illegal mining activities across the country, has submitted its first report to the Union mines ministry about mining activities in Odisha Tuesday evening. The content of the 1,500 page-long report is unknown yet, as it will be made public after it is laid in Parliament.

CSM technology is the IT arm of the steel and mines department and helps maintaining daily mineral transaction data on website orissaminerals.gov.in

The state steel and mines department has decided to send its officials to Karnataka to study modalities of iron ore e-auction there, as it is gearing up to start selling minerals thorough a single electronic platform here.