Jaipur : For the efficient implementation and common monitoring of the dues-interest waiver amnesty scheme of the Mines Department, extra administrators of the Mines Department have been entrusted with the accountability by making them nodal officers on the zonal degree. Principal Secretary to the Mines and Petroleum Department, T. Ravikant, has shaped zonal committees beneath the chairmanship of extra administrators.
Principal Secretary of Mines Department, T Ravikant stated that on this committee, all of the Superintending Mining Engineers of the Zone, all of the Mining Engineers and Assistant Mining Engineers of the Zone in addition to the consultant of the group of mining lease holders have been made members of this committee. The particular factor in that is that the participation of the officers of the mining lease holders’ group has additionally been determined. Principal Secretary T. Ravikant stated that workshops might be organized to supply detailed details about the efficient implementation and provisions of the Amnesty Scheme. Along with this, private coordination might be established with the involved defaulters in order that the excellent income could be recovered.
It is noteworthy that Chief Minister and Mines Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, whereas enunciating the necessity to implement the departmental amnesty scheme, stated that via this scheme, the excellent income of the state authorities might be recovered. Besides, by saving pointless money and time spent on restoration efforts, the human assets employed in restoration work might be utilized in productive work. Ravikant advised that the Amnesty Scheme of the Mines Department will cowl the mounted hire/hire, royalty, extra royalty, penalty, arrears of RCC, ERCC contracts, allow, STP and development division for mining leases of minor minerals, quarry licenses, short-term work permission issued for gravel. The dues of contractors have been utilized to circumstances of different departmental dues until March 31, 2023. The departmental amnesty scheme will stay efficient until March 31, 2025.
Under the amnesty scheme, together with curiosity waiver, most aid of as much as 90 p.c of the principal quantity has been given in several slabs in keeping with the excellent interval. According to the provisions of the scheme, the advantages of the scheme provisions could be availed provided that the prescribed quantity is deposited inside the scheme interval. Director Mines Bhagwati Prasad Kalal stated that in keeping with a tough estimate, round 2900 such circumstances are prone to come beneath the amnesty scheme. He stated that by making Zonal Additional Finder Mines the nodal officer on the zone degree, implementation and efficient monitoring of the scheme might be doable.
