Government to resolve granite industry issues, says Minister Kollu Ravindra

The State authorities volition widen afloat enactment to the granite cutting and polishing manufacture and resoluteness its long-pending issues, Mines and Geology Minister Kollu Ravindra said connected Tuesday.

Speaking aft a gathering with representatives of the Granite Cutting and Polishing Units Associations from the erstwhile Guntur and Prakasam districts, the Minister said a committee comprising each stakeholders had been formed to code the industry’s concerns.

Mr. Ravindra assured that the authorities would instrumentality a affirmative determination connected the seigniorage outgo contented without causing losses either to the State oregon to the industry.

The meeting, held astatine the Secretariat successful Amaravati, was attended by Ministers Gottipati Ravi Kumar and Dola Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy, and MLAs Eluri Sambasiva Rao and B.N. Vijay Kumar. Industry representatives explained that the signifier of charging azygous seigniorage for each grades of earthy worldly was causing fiscal strain to the units and sought a much applicable solution. Mr. Ravindra appealed to mill owners to telephone disconnected their onslaught immediately, pointing retired that prolonged shutdowns were affecting thousands of babelike workers.

To code cardinal concerns, the authorities has constituted a committee with officials from the Mining Department, territory DMGOs, seigniorage postulation agencies, and 2 members from each association. The committee volition clasp consultations with stakeholders and taxable its study wrong a week, the Minister added.