PANAJI
The Directorate of Mines and Geology (DMG) has sought applications from the erstwhile mining leaseholders seeking to handle the iron ore dumps lying outside the lease-bound areas on private land.
Mining companies would be permitted to remove the dumps within five years, provided conversion fees under the land revenue code have been paid. These are basically the inventoried dumps.
In a press statement issued, DMG said that the erstwhile leaseholders should submit their applications for permission for dump handling under the provisions of 2.2 of "Policy for Regulating Iron Ore Dump Handling in the State of Goa" within 10 days. No applications thereafter would be entertained by the Directorate.
As per the amended policy, DMG said that with respect to the inventoried dumps situated on private properties falling outside the lease area, but depicted on the mining plan and only if the Conversion fees for regulating the mining dumps on government and private lands of the Goa Land Revenue Code, have been paid; the erstwhile leaseholder shall be permitted to remove the dump within five years.
The dump handling would be permitted subject to the payment of royalty and compliance with all statutory requirements. “For the purpose of clause 2.2 private properties includes within its ambit the lease area of another erstwhile lease holder subject to the said lease never having been worked by the said other erstwhile leaseholder and the said area being depicted as a dump site on the IBM approved mining plan of the Applicant erstwhile leaseholder,” the DMG said.
