PANJIM: Mining dependent people from Goa have petitioned Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to evolve an affirmative political consensus between the State and the Centre for urgent and immediate resumption of mining activities in the State.

Pro-mining agitators on Monday met Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi along with local NCP leaders and would also meet the PM, and petition that the Ministry of Environment and Forests be instructed to revoke the order of suspension of environment clearances, kept in abeyance since October 2012.