Decision Prompted By Fear Of Regular Income Rendering Male Head Of Family Unproductive
THE new mining legislation will make woman of the house chief beneficiary of the compensation for land acquired for mining project, as the government seeks to ensure the large amounts provided go into ensuring livelihood and are not depleted quickly.
Medical Education and District In-charge Minister S A Ramdas on Thursday announced that the sand policy will be brought to curb illegal sand mining activities in the district, within one month.
He was speaking after inaugurating one-day seminar on
Democracy allows a hundred ideas on a given subject to bloom before a policy is finally made. That the draft mining bill will provoke miners, stand alone ones and those who dig earth to remove minerals for captive use, to react is expected. Perhaps that is what the government wants.
Even as the Meena Gupta Committee wound up its visit to Orissa on Posco case, the state government is all set to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court within next one week, challenging the Orissa High Court
In an apparent attempt to come up with the long awaited Mining Policy, the State Government has finally circulated (to a very selected circle of readers I must admit) a Draft Document called the Meghalaya Mineral Policy 2010. It makes very interesting reading material and the very title of the document is by itself a matter of great grammatical intrigue.
