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| Whether I stay or go, |
| Whether I stay or go, God will decide: Digambar Kamat
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| INDIA
, 6-October-2011
3:42:19 AM |
| Under fire from all quarters for the massive scale of illegal mining in Goa, Chief Minister, Digmabar Kamat refutes allegations against him as he speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain in an exclusive interview.
Sreenivasan Jain: Mr Kamat is there illegal mining going on in the state of Goa?
Digambar Kamat: Wherever illegal mining has come to the notice of the Directorate, they have immediately taken action, cracked down on those people and even filed cases against them, sometimes confiscated the machinery, sometimes raised the royalty,. Under the MMRD Act, there is a provision to charge ten times the royalty so in 2-3 cases, they have charged ten times the royalty also. There were people who were extracting ore without any lease in their own property, in their own agricultural property, under the name of constructing some tank. They started digging then the things were brought to our notice.
Sreenivasan Jain: This may have happened a while back and it may have happened in bits and pieces but the worry is that it is happening in Goa at a much more rampant scale and that your Government is simply not able to do enough about it.
Digambar Kamat: See we have a monitoring committee headed by Additional Principal Conservator of Forest where all the representatives of all the bodies are there. They visit each and every lease, wherever any irregularities are brought to their notice they immediately write to the concerned departments to take action. We have a committee headed by the Chief Secretary, empowered Committee, which meets very often where there are representatives of all the agencies who participate in the meeting.
Sreenivasan Jain: But sir the question then is that when you have all these committees and these bodies, how is it then that there is a very strong feeling that there is rampant illegal mining going on unchecked?
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