Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2022

E-FIR Against Royal Red Builder Jabalpur For Illegal Minor Minerals Civil Line Police Station

  Jabalpur: E FIR 921331016220009 dated 07/10/22 (civil Line Police Station) is registered against  using illegal source of Minor Minerals for construction of Royal Red in Pachpedi, Jabalpur by R Construction Company in a residential project . According to section 3(e) of the  Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957  “Minor Minerals” means building stones, gravel, ordinary clay, ordinary sand other than sand used for prescribed purposes , and any other mineral which the Central Government may, by notification in the  Official Gazette , declare to be a minor mineral. (For the purposes of this Act, the word "minerals” includes all minerals except mineral oils- natural gas and petroleum). The minor minerals are used in construction work. The Government of India, Department of Mines, vide notification dated 3.2.2000, had declared the ordinary earth used for filling or leveling purposes in the construction of embankment, road, railways, building to be a minor mineral