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Friday, October 5, 2012

SC Bans Mining in Goa, Demands Report in 4 weeks

The Supreme Court on Friday Oct 5,2012ordered that the Ban on Illegal Mining Acitivity with immediate effect in Goa following the Shah Commission Report  and has asked a Central Empowered Committee to submit a report on illegal mining within 4 weeks.
The SC has also imposed a restriction on transportation of ore that has already been mined.

The Justice Shah Commission Report indicted -
the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM)
 the union ministry for environment and forests (MoEF)
state directorate of mines
 state forest department and
 Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB)
for illegal mining in the state.

The Justice Shah Commission Report says -
illegal mining was spread over 500 hectares of area
several hundred acres of which was forest and government-owned land and
the iron ore mining scam was worth nearly Rs. 35,000 crore

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