Workers on rolls of all mining firms will be paid 50% of the wage during the period for which they were out of work due to the stay on mining activity by the apex court
The Supreme Court on Monday while setting an annual cap of 20 million tonnes (mt) per annum allowed Goa to extract iron ore from the state. Iron ore mining was banned in Goa by the apex court for nearly one-and-a-half years.
A Bench comprising justices AK Patnaik, SS Nijjar and FMI Kalifulla, however, said the expert panel will give final a recommendation on annual cap on excavation of iron ore within six months.
It said there cannot be a deemed renewal of lease after 2007 of the existing lease deeds emanating from 1962 onwards.
It also said there will be no grant of lease for mining around one km of national parks and wild life sanctuaries.
The court directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to identify eco-sensitive areas around national parks within six months.
It said the Goa government will formulate a scheme within six months for utilising the funds generated by e-auction.
The Bench said that the workers on rolls of all mining firms will be paid 50% of the wage during the period for which they were out of work because of the apex court stay on the mining activity.
Further, within six months, the expert panel will recommend how the extracted dumps are to be utilised, it said.
On 27th March, the Bench had reserved its order on putting the annual cap on volume of iron ore to be extracted in Goa.
The Bench had said it cannot go into the policy matter and will only address the regulatory aspect involved in it.
The expert panel had recommended to Goa government to form a mining corporation or a public sector company in view of “illegalities” by private miners.
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