MAYEM: Residents of Navelim on Sunday demanded with the State government to restart legal mines in the State.

The residents made the demand at the Navelim Gram Sabha, which was specially called by the panchayat to discuss the crisis faced by truck owners and others dependent on mining. Most of the speakers at the gram sabha raised different problems faced by the mining related components like truck owners, garage owners, spare part shop owners, businessmen engaged in tyres and tube selling, truck drivers, cleaners and others dependent on mining.