HC lambasts govt, wants probe into ore exports
Openly expressing lack of confidence in government officers, the high court on Thursday indicated it may call for a thorough probe by
an independent agency like the CBI into the mining and forest lease scams.
"Our natural resources are being exploited and exported by individual licence holders with the connivance of officials. While our industries like Mysore Steel are closed for want of raw material, throwing workers on the streets, iron ore is exported from everywhere, enriching foreign countries," a division bench headed by chief justice P D Dinakaran said.
"While the market rate is Rs 2,000 to 3,000, they finalize the deal for Rs 100 a tonne. Can this doing away with natural wealth be called globalization? We don't have confidence in your (government) officers and rather prefer an independent authority to investigate quarrying, mining and export of iron ore, besides leasing of forests for 999 years," the bench told the government advocate while adjourning a batch of petitions filed by parties including Mysore Minerals.
Source:TOI
an independent agency like the CBI into the mining and forest lease scams.
"Our natural resources are being exploited and exported by individual licence holders with the connivance of officials. While our industries like Mysore Steel are closed for want of raw material, throwing workers on the streets, iron ore is exported from everywhere, enriching foreign countries," a division bench headed by chief justice P D Dinakaran said.
"While the market rate is Rs 2,000 to 3,000, they finalize the deal for Rs 100 a tonne. Can this doing away with natural wealth be called globalization? We don't have confidence in your (government) officers and rather prefer an independent authority to investigate quarrying, mining and export of iron ore, besides leasing of forests for 999 years," the bench told the government advocate while adjourning a batch of petitions filed by parties including Mysore Minerals.
Source:TOI
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