JK News Today
Srinagar, February 6: Jammu and Kashmir mining department has decided to go for online approval of the mining challans and allotment and ease out getting the sufficient material through legal means.
This was decided during a review meeting on ongoing works of Kashmir division held by secretary, Mining, Amit Sharma held at civil secretariat here
The meeting was attended by Director Geology & Mining and other officers of the department.
During the meeting, secretary issued clear directions that the department has now entered an advanced phase of provisioning online services through 100% usage of e-Challan and e-Marketplace including other G2B2C services and it is high time to ease out functioning of the Mining Portal for ensuring maximum public convenience.
Apart from sorting out some important technical glitches in a healthy brainstorming session held between DMOs, departmental IT experts and Developers’ team, Mining Department decided to resort to auto approval of e-Challans which has also been prescribed under the rules. This shall indeed give a lot of respite to public applying through this online mechanism and also to the teams/staff of respective DMO offices who can now onwards focus on many other important aspects of mining and related works.
Amit Sharma also directed that there should be uniform measurement of quantity in terms of Metric Tonnes and not Cubic Feet. He asked the the Mining Portal Development Team to take necessary steps to remove this anomaly at the earliest.
It was further decided that there should be fortnightly regular review meetings to be held between Portal Developers’ team and DMOs to keep improvising upon the existing Portal features which shall lead to incorporation of necessary improvements so that public of J&K can feel more comfortable while purchasing mining material through Government e-Marketplace www.geologymining.jk.gov.in in the times to come.
Secretary also directed all DMOs especially those working in all ten Kashmir districts to keep the Mining activity vibrant all through these ongoing winter months. It should be ensured that all ongoing prestigious projects of national importance like Ring Road, NH expansion, Railways works etc keep getting sufficient material through legitimate means so that these projects are completed well within the prescribed timelines, he added.
Secretary also directed Director to hold a meeting this week only with Lessees of e-auctioned blocks and Project executing agencies so as to ensure provisioning of required quantities of mining materials for these ongoing Projects.
