{"id":27358,"date":"2017-09-26T23:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/09\/26\/dispute-over-royalty-gm-deptt-reacts-to-efcc-deptt\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T23:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:52:41","slug":"dispute-over-royalty-gm-deptt-reacts-to-efcc-deptt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/dispute-over-royalty-gm-deptt-reacts-to-efcc-deptt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispute over royalty: G&M deptt. reacts to EF&CC deptt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drawing attention to the Office Memorandum (OM) issued by the principal secretary, department of environment, forest & climate change (EF&CC) concerning Nagaland Minor Mineral Concession Rules (NMMCR), the department of Geology and Mining (G&M) has stated that the question of confusion between the two departments jurisdictions and maintaining status quo at the direction of the principal secretary appeared to be \u201cirrational.\u201d<\/div>\n
In a press release, G&M director, Wanthang Rengma, pointed out that the Nagaland Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2004 (NMMCR 2004) was framed under section 17 of the Nagaland (Ownership and Transfer of Land and its Resources) Act, 1990 (Act 1 of 1993) in line with the special provision of Article 371A of the Indian Constitution. <\/div>\n
G&M director said the same was also laid in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly and notified in the Nagaland Gazette Extraordinary No. 52 dated March 1, 2005 and the authorised nodal department to enforce the aforesaid rule in the G&M department. <\/div>\n
The director stated that the aforesaid rule came into force from the date of its publication in the Nagaland Gazette Extraordinary March 1, 2005. However, G&M director said the department could not operationalise the aforesaid rules as forest department continued to collect royalty on sand and gravels, boulders etc till date. <\/div>\n
In the meantime, the director said that as per rules of executive business, the G&M department was made responsible to answer all legal and illegal issues pertaining to extraction of minor, major minerals including old involving both within and outside the state. <\/div>\n
The director stated that the department has to attend various court cases, important court verdicts, file affidavits and regularly submit data\/information on various minerals sought by the parliament\/central government. However, in absence of legal framework, the G&M director said the normal functioning of the department was adversely affected.<\/div>\n
Further, drawing attention to the forest department\u2019s claim that rock, sand, minerals, stones, boulders, limestone, laterite, mineral oils and all minerals produce from mines and quarries as forest produce stating that it was listed in the Nagaland Forest Act, 1968 and the Nagaland Jhumland Act, 1970, the G&M director pointed out that when the Nagaland Coal Policy and Rules, 2006 came into force, the said issue was deliberated at highest level on October 11, 2011 in the conference hall of the chief secretary, Nagaland.<\/div>\n
At the meeting, the G&M director said that the forest department was directed to take steps to amend the Nagaland Forest Act, 1968 as coal was listed as mining produce in the Nagaland (Ownership and Transfer of Land and its Resources) Act, 1990.<\/div>\n
Therefore, the G&M director said that the minerals including coal and mineral oil fall within the jurisdiction of G&M department even as per Rules of Executive Business of the government. <\/div>\n
Also, the director said that with the coming into force of the NMMCR, 2004, under rule 2, any rules pertaining to quarrying or collection of royalty on minor minerals within the state of Nagaland from forest or non-forest areas contained in any rules of Nagaland immediately before the commencement of these rules were repealed from the date of its notification.<\/div>\n
G&M director also reminded that the review committee constituted under the chairmanship of the additional chief secretary & development commissioner has already issued recommendation dated November 30, 2016 to operationalise the NMMCR, 2004 immediately, pending finalisation of the amendment part, which was under consideration of the government\/committee.<\/div>\n
Stating that the forest department was represented in the said meeting at the rank of CCF and joint secretary, the director said the state government based on that had notified for operationalisation of NMMCR, 2004 signed by the chief secretary Nagaland, adding that under the strength of the said notification, the department of G&M was now implementing the aforesaid rules.<\/div>\n
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Drawing attention to the Office Memorandum (OM) issued by the principal secretary, department of environment, forest & climate change (EF&CC) concerning Nagaland Minor Mineral Concession Rules (NMMCR), the department of Geology and Mining (G&M) has stated that the question of confusion between the two departments jurisdictions and maintaining status quo at the direction of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}