The Punjab Government has come out with a monitoring plan for preventing illegal mining and illicit excavation of minor minerals in the state. The detailed plan is yet to be approved by the Cabinet.

 Information to this effect was furnished before a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court as a case hovering around illegal mining in the state came up for resumed hearing.

 Appearing before the Bench of Justice Satish Kumar Mittal and Justice Mahavir Singh Chauhan, counsel for the respondent-State submitted that the state government had prepared the monitoring prevention plan and soon a decision on the same would be taken. “Thereafter, the plan will be notified”.

 He said action would be taken against persons indulging in illegal mining in the state in accordance with the plan. For the time being, a special investigation team was continuing with the assigned task of preventing illegal mining and “taking action in this regard”.

 Taking a note of the assertion, the Bench fixed October 21 as the next date of hearing. The state government has already registered no less than 2,000 FIRs in cases hovering around illegal mining..............Read more

Source web page: The Tribune