The Ministry of Mines has vide order dated March 4th 2009 constituted a Central Coordination cum Empowered Committee under the chairpersonship of Secretary (Mines) to monitor and minimize delays at various levels in grant of approvals for mineral concession applications.
The CEC meets quarterly and has so far held ten meetings wherein important decisions aimed at minimizing delays in processing of mineral concession applications at various levels and bringing about efficiency and transparency in the overall mineral concession regime were taken.
In the current calendar year, four meetings of the CEC have been held, with the last meeting having been held on 21st September 2012.
Under Section 30 of the Mines and Minerals Act, 1957, the Ministry of Mines exercises its revisionary powers in dealing with the revision applications filed by the applicants who are aggrieved by any order passed by the State Government or any other authority in exercise of the powers conferred by the MMDR Act. The Mineral Concession Rules, 1960 prescribes the detailed procedure for filing and disposal of revision applications under Rule 54 and 55.
It was decided vide order dated 27th March 2012 that from 1st April 2012 only Joint Secretary level officers will function as the Revisional Authority and now there are 4 Revisional Authorities handling the work.
During the period from 1st January 2012 to 17th December 2012, 233 revision applications have been disposed of.
