PANJIM: Goa government is scheduled to file an affidavit before the Supreme Court wherein it will stress the early resumption of mining in the state.

Chief Secretary B Vijayan told Herald that government, being one of the respondents, would be filing an affidavit before the Court during its next hearing of the public interest litigation. “We are party to it. We will be filing our reply. The stand of the government is clear ~that we should be allowed to resume legal mining immediately,” he said.