Haryana Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today approved the Amendment in the “Haryana Minor Mineral Concession, Stocking, Transportation Minerals and Prevention of Illegal Mining Rules, 2012″….
- Chandigarh April 22: Haryana Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today approved the Amendment in the “Haryana Minor Mineral Concession, Stocking, Transportation Minerals and Prevention of Illegal Mining Rules, 2012” and “Haryana District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2017”.
- These rules may be called the “Haryana Minor Mineral Concession, Stocking, Transportation Minerals and Prevention of Illegal Mining (Amendment) Rules, 2021” and “Haryana District Mineral Foundation (Amendment) Rules, 2021”. These rules shall come into force from the date of their publication in the official gazette.
- AS per the amendments, in case of mining lease / contract being granted through competitive bidding process, the highest bid received shall become the ‘annual dead rent’ or annual contract money payable by the lessee or contractors respectively. As per existing State Rules [Rule 9(3) and 22(2) respectively of the State Rules, 2012, the same is increased @ 25 percent on completion of each block of three years. The Department proposed that rate of increase after every 03 years shall be reduced to 10 percent as the existing rate is too high.
- It was decided that the request of mining contractors/ lease holders seeking surrender [un- conditional request] of lease/contract will be allowed subject to the condition that they submit application with no dues certificate up to the calendar month. The surrender will be allowed on payment of surrender fee equal to one-month dead rent/ contract money. However, such surrender fee would be equal to two months dues in case applications are submitted during June 1 to September 15 (Monsoon period).
- No application for surrender of part area of the mineral concession shall be maintainable. The Director shall pass orders accepting the surrender request within 30 days. In case no decision is communicated, the application for surrender shall be deemed to have been accepted on expiry of 30 days of submission of the application.
- It was also decided that the amount payable as security be allowed to be given or replaced by giving Fixed Deposit furnished in favour of the Director, Mines and Geology, Department, in lieu of amount deposited in the government security head.
- As per provisions of the State Rules, 2012, the mineral concession holders are liable to pay interest on delayed payments at the rate of 15 percent for delay up to 30 days, 18 percent for delay up to 60 days and 21 percent per annum for on delay of 60 days. It was decided that the rate of interest on delayed payments be reduced to 12 percent per annum flat for period of delay after 7 days.
- As per existing Rules, mineral concession holders are entitled to stock within contracted area but not more than 2 times of average monthly production as per mining plan. Keeping in view that excavation of mineral is not permissible during monsoon season in case of riverbed mining, It was decided that the riverbed mining contractors be allowed to stock minerals in the mining area up to 3 times of average monthly production.
- It was also decided in the meeting that the minimum distance from the source of mineral (mine) for grant of MDL be increased to five kilometres for raw mineral from mines, to reduce the possibility of stocking illegally mined mineral. In cases of washing plant and screening plant, provision for grant of MDL based on NOC/ CTE of the HSPCB.
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