One-window facility for mining approved

Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed Mines and Mineral Development Department to start one-window service for issuance of licences and NOCs to facilitate those who intend to install power crush plants and carry out riverbed mining in a legal way, further directing them to ensure the issuance of such licences and NoCs to the applicants in one week time.

He has further directed the authorities concerned to work out an effective mechanism to ensure the implementation of safe distance as prescribed in the relevant rules for sand and gravel extraction from riverbeds and mining near urban and rural population so that losses to human lives and properties could be minimized in floods and other natural calamities.

He was chairing a meeting of Mines and Mineral Development Department here the other day. The meeting discussed in details various matters related to regulate and streamline power crush plants, riverbeds mining.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 9^th, 2021.