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 duty by making them nodal officers on the zonal degree. Principal Secretary of Mines and Petroleum Department, T. Ravikant has fashioned zonal committees beneath the chairmanship of extra administrators.
Principal Secretary of Mines Department, T Ravikant mentioned 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 mining lessees’ group 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 mentioned that workshops will likely be organized to offer detailed details about the efficient implementation and provisions of the Amnesty Scheme. Along with this, private coordination will likely be established with the involved defaulters in order that the excellent income might be recovered.
It is noteworthy that Chief Minister and Mines Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, whereas enunciating the necessity to implement the departmental amnesty scheme, mentioned that by way of this scheme, the excellent income of the state authorities will likely be recovered. Besides, by saving pointless money and time spent on restoration efforts, the human assets employed in restoration work will likely be utilized in productive work. Ravikant advised that the Amnesty Scheme of the Mines Department will cowl the mounted lease/lease, 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 instances 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 reduction of as much as 90 % of the principal quantity has been given in several slabs in accordance with the excellent interval. According to the provisions of the scheme, the advantages of the scheme provisions might be availed provided that the prescribed quantity is deposited inside the scheme interval. Director Mines Bhagwati Prasad Kalal mentioned that in accordance with a tough estimate, round 2900 such instances are more likely to come beneath the amnesty scheme. He mentioned that by making Zonal Additional Finder Mines the nodal officer on the zone degree, implementation and efficient monitoring of the scheme will likely be potential.
