As per study conducted by National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the State has been made to bear total environment cost due to mining to the tune of Rs 548.4 crore.
This was revealed by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat in his written reply to an unstarred question tabled by Sanguem MLA Vasudev Gaonkar.

He had sought to know whether the government had calculated environment cost o