Mining to speed up post monsoons: Parsekar

TIL Desk/Business/Panaji-The iron ore mining in Goa will pick up pace after monsoons, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said today. “The mining business in the state has resumed after a gap of three and half years. After the monsoon season it will pick up the pace and will start with full force,” Parsekar said addressing Independence Day function here today.

He assured the people that mistakes (on mining front resulting in illegal mining) those were committed by erstwhile government would not be repeated by the current dispensation.

“We have to have environment friendly mining keeping in mind the welfare of the state,” he commented. The Chief Minister recalled how in 2012 when mining activity was stopped (after MB Shah commission report) by Supreme Court, the state plunged into financial instability.