PANAJI: The state government can be filing supporting affidavits within the Supreme Court within the 20-year-old case for early resumption of mining operations, leader minister Pramod Sawant told IdealNews on Thursday.
“I have studied the mining topic and we can come to a decision now tips on how to document a reply within the Supreme Court,” Sawant mentioned.
Sawant, who left for Delhi on Thursday night time, mentioned he would additionally carry the issue of resumption of mining actions within the state with Prime Minister Narendra Modi “if time allows”.
“I am not going with any particular time table to satisfy the Prime Minister. It is a courtesy consult with. I'm likely to meet the Prime Minister on Friday,” Sawant, who is on his first authentic consult with after he was once sworn in as the executive minister on Tuesday, mentioned.
Sawant, who represents Sakhali constituency that falls within the mining belt, had told IdealNews in an unique interview that he would soak up the resumption of mining operations on a priority basis. “It is on my thoughts…I have seen the suffering and I have suffered too,” he had mentioned.
Mining operations in Goa came to a halt on March 16, 2018 after the Supreme Court cancelled the entire 88 rentals.
The Supreme Court has agreed to listen to in a while an attraction filed by a mining company challenging a 1987 regulation that abolished mining concessions granted by the Portuguese.
Sawant mentioned the mining ministry has filed a “sure affidavit” within the Supreme Court in search of an early listening to of these appeals filed in 1998.
The mining corporations had filed the appeals after the high court of Bombay at Goa had disregarded their petitions challenging the Goa, Daman and Diu (Abolition and Declaration of Mining Leases) Act, 1987.
Under the Portuguese Colonial Mining Law, the appellants were granted mining concessions, which have been converted into mining rentals under the abolition act. In the attraction filed before it, the Supreme Court has to come to a decision the constitutional validity of the provisions of the abolition act.
The Goa Mining People’s Front (GMPF) had instructed the state government to document supporting affidavits within the topic for the early resumption of mining actions within the state.
Late leader minister Manohar Parrikar had despatched a couple of letters to the ministry of mines emphasising at the social-economic crisis prevalent in Goa because of stoppage of mining and proposing a legislative cure for early resumption of mining thru appropriate amendment to the abolition act.
“I have studied the mining topic and we can come to a decision now tips on how to document a reply within the Supreme Court,” Sawant mentioned.
Sawant, who left for Delhi on Thursday night time, mentioned he would additionally carry the issue of resumption of mining actions within the state with Prime Minister Narendra Modi “if time allows”.
“I am not going with any particular time table to satisfy the Prime Minister. It is a courtesy consult with. I'm likely to meet the Prime Minister on Friday,” Sawant, who is on his first authentic consult with after he was once sworn in as the executive minister on Tuesday, mentioned.
Sawant, who represents Sakhali constituency that falls within the mining belt, had told IdealNews in an unique interview that he would soak up the resumption of mining operations on a priority basis. “It is on my thoughts…I have seen the suffering and I have suffered too,” he had mentioned.
Mining operations in Goa came to a halt on March 16, 2018 after the Supreme Court cancelled the entire 88 rentals.
The Supreme Court has agreed to listen to in a while an attraction filed by a mining company challenging a 1987 regulation that abolished mining concessions granted by the Portuguese.
Sawant mentioned the mining ministry has filed a “sure affidavit” within the Supreme Court in search of an early listening to of these appeals filed in 1998.
The mining corporations had filed the appeals after the high court of Bombay at Goa had disregarded their petitions challenging the Goa, Daman and Diu (Abolition and Declaration of Mining Leases) Act, 1987.
Under the Portuguese Colonial Mining Law, the appellants were granted mining concessions, which have been converted into mining rentals under the abolition act. In the attraction filed before it, the Supreme Court has to come to a decision the constitutional validity of the provisions of the abolition act.
The Goa Mining People’s Front (GMPF) had instructed the state government to document supporting affidavits within the topic for the early resumption of mining actions within the state.
Late leader minister Manohar Parrikar had despatched a couple of letters to the ministry of mines emphasising at the social-economic crisis prevalent in Goa because of stoppage of mining and proposing a legislative cure for early resumption of mining thru appropriate amendment to the abolition act.
Goa to file reply in SC soon for resuming mining operations, says CM
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