Odiya and Bihari labourers hired on contract for Goa's mining industry need to be "shunted" out of the state as the mining ban is forcing them towards crime, Congress legislator Vishwajeet Rane alleged on Tuesday. Rane was speaking during the question hour during the Budget Session of the Goa legislative assembly. ...
02:45 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The Justice MB Shah commission, which is probing illegal mining, on Monday said it was unlikely to meet the July 16 deadline for submitting the final report to the central government. ...
01:26 AM, Mar 05, 2013
A Supreme Court panel has ruled that no mining activity will be allowed in Goa until all environmental clearances are obtained by the state government. The order comes following an inquiry report by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) into the illegal iron-ore mining in the state. ...
04:04 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday said it would soon lunch a drive to identify the mines which had been allegedly operating outside the leased area, official sources said. The state government's action in this regard, sources said, came in response to a suggestion of the Justice MB Shah Commission which wound up its third phase of document verification in Bhubaneshwar. "Very few cases of slight encroachment is observed through digital...
01:32 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Panaji: With uncertainty prevailing over resumption of mining activity in Goa, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has said the government and not court can find a solution to it. Supreme Court recently halted the transportation and extraction of ore in the state pending inquiry report from the Centrally Empowered committee (CEC), which will probe into the illegalities pointed out by Justice MB Shah Commission. "I have strong objections to a ruling...
12:45 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A team of the Justice MB Shah Commission of enquiry will visit Odisha again on October 31 to further investigate the alleged mining illegalities in the state, official sources said on Sunday. The state government has been informed that the team of the Commission led by senior bureaucrat UV Singh will arrive in Bhubaneswar on October 31 and stay in the state to conduct the investigation until November 11,...
12:48 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Panaji: The Justice MB Shah Commission report on illegal mining which led to cancellation of all the 93 mining leases in Goa is "factually incorrect" in several aspects, claimed an apex body of state mining exporters. "We would like to cite that a number of observations made in the Shah Commission report are factually incorrect," Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA) has said in its letter to the Ministry of...
09:11 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Panaji: Former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat, indicted by Justice MB Shah Commission in its report on illegal mining in the state, on Friday said the commission never asked him to present his side. "I was never called for any inquiry or justification by Shah Commission. Whatever is interpreted by the Commission in the report should be verified by the state government," Kamat said, reacting to the report for the...
05:02 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Panaji: The Goa government has decided to stop work at all mines in the state till a complete review of the same is done. Following the decision, all the 90 mines in the state are slated to stop work till the completion of the review. This decision has come after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state decided to review their working after the decision to implement the...
08:46 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Shah Commission which is probing the alleged Rs 3 lakh crore mining scam in Odisha's Keonjhar district reveals that the state bureaucrats are directly involved in it. The commission however observed that the involvement of state politicians need a further probe as there is no direct evidence against them. Chairman of the commission Justice MB Shah said, "At least we can say that without the connivance of...
07:18 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Keonjhar: The Centre appointed Shah Commission led by former Supreme Court judge Justice MB Shah on Thursday formally began investigation into illegal mining in Odisha. The Commission held a discussion with the district authorities of Keonjhar and Sundergarh besides authorities of the railways, Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) and forest officials. "We have supplied documents and replied to the queries made by the commission during the meeting," Keonjhar district magistrate...
08:05 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Panaji: In a breather for the Goa government ahead of polls in 2012, the Justice MB Shah Commission set up by the Centre to look into illegal mining in several states including Goa will not be submitting its report on December 1 as was being anticipated. According to Sources, the Shah Commission is likely to undertake another visit to Goa to reconcile the finances of the mining companies. The sources...
06:19 PM, Nov 30, 2011
