May 06, 2021
The Indian Bureau of Mines is digitising
He said he would soon write to the top bureaucrat of the state where limestone
is being illegally mined to initiate action.Mines secretary Ferro
titanium cored wire Factory Balvi-nder Kumar declined to name the state
ahead of the completion of surveillance in some other regions, but said the
findings echoed a multi-billion-dollar iron ore scam that led to a three-year
mining ban and turned India into an importer from a net exporter of the
steelmaking commodity. A lot of money is being made there."After covering all
the major minerals like iron ore and limestone in the next three months, we will
look at sand mining."A Karnataka minister was arrested in 2011 and iron ore
mining was banned for three years in the state and in Goa after India’s top
court found that fly-by-night operators had profited from a surge in Chinese
demand for the iron ore.
The Indian Bureau of Mines is digitising maps of all
mines under the purview of the ministry to check — as satellites pass over every
23 days — whether companies are violating rules by mining outside their lease
areas.Local media have reported about illegal limestone mining in two of the top
producing states — Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.India will monitor thousands of
mines with the help of satellites starting this year, a government official
said, after a three-month pilot project found rampant illegal extraction of
limestone in a big state.Karnataka, AP, Rajas-than and Gujarat are the country’s
top producers of limestone, a raw material for making cement."We suspect that
there is rampant illegal mining by the unorganised sector," Mr Kumar
said.Gujarat-based Bhaskara-charya Institute for Space Applications and
Geoi-nformatics is helping the ministry monitor mineral extraction.Mr Kumar said
the scam had crippled India’s steel industry and the government was keen to
avoid a repetition.
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