Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Action plan for prevention of illegal mining,18/11/2019

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Action plan for prevention of illegal mining,18/11/2019 . Based on the information received from the State Governments in the quarterly returns on illegal mining submitted to Indian Bureau of Mines (a subordinate office of Ministry of Mines), number of cases of illegal mining detected by State Governments in the year 2018-19 are given at Annexure.