By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha and former State cadre IAS officer Ashwini Vaishnaw was on Thursday while participating in a debate on MMDR Act 2015-Mineral Laws (Amendment) Bill-2020 in the Upper House of Parliament said Odisha will largely benefited due to the new laws.
The bureaucrat turned Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha, where 20 mines auctioned recently, whose term of lease expiring by March 31, 2020, said the mineral rich eastern Indian State of Odisha
will get RS 4 Lakh Crore revenue from 20 auctioned Mines under Joda-Koira-Rairangpur till it expires because of MMDR Act 2015-Mineral Laws(Amendment) Bill-2020.
While thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Mines Minister Prahallad Joshi, the former Private Secretary to late Ex PM Bharat Ratna AB Vajpayee Ji, said that around 2 lakhs people will get regular livelihood from these mines in Odisha, which is more important for economic liberalisation of poor and marginalised sections of mineral rich Joda-Koira-Rairangpur regions of State’s Keonjhar, Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj districts.
The former IAS officer said that the creation of District Mineral Funds under this Laws was a historic step by Narendra Modi led NDA Government and till date, Odisha keeps around Rs 10,000 crore in the Fund while around Rs 40,000 crore have been deposited in mineral rich States across the Country.
