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Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) unequivocally asserted that the companies, which person surrendered soil mining leases, volition not beryllium allowed to enactment successful the caller tender for allotment of soil mining lease successful the State.
The companies person surrendered their soil mining leases for 78 soil ghats to the section citing monolithic losses in the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-2026, said Mr. Sinha who besides holds mines and geology section successful the State.
“Surrendering the leases has caused a gross nonaccomplishment to the tune of around ₹700 crore to the department,” Mr. Sinha said during the property league successful Patna.
He further said: “We volition not let them to enactment successful the caller tender that volition beryllium floated to grant lease for these (78) ghats. They volition not beryllium capable to enactment successful the bidding adjacent if they alteration their names oregon their companies’ names. We are going to alteration our argumentation to blacklist these companies. “
Accompanied by Department’s Secretary Divesh Sehara, Mines Director Manesh Kumar Meena, Mr. Sinha said that these companies had procured the soil mining lease aft making a bid astatine a terms which was exorbitantly higher.
“They did it to marque speedy wealth done amerciable mining but they could not bash truthful due to the fact that of the department’s strictness to cheque amerciable mining and overloading which led them to surrender lease of ghats,” Mr. Sinha claimed.
These companies and radical volition besides beryllium identified for taking further indispensable enactment against them too seizing their information deposits, the curate added.
During the media enactment , Mr. Sinha transferred astatine the click of a fastener a full of ₹37 lakh into the slope accounts of 71 informants arsenic portion of the department’s inaugural “Bihari Yoddha Purashkar” launched to cheque amerciable mining and overloading.
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Those providing accusation connected amerciable mining, proscription and overloading by tractor volition person ₹5,000 portion those giving accusation astir amerciable question by motortruck volition beryllium rewarded with ₹10,000.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had launched the inaugural to promote nationalist information to cheque amerciable mining, proscription and overloading and drawback the erring persons.
Mr. Sinha said that these “Yoddhas”- whose details are not shared due to the fact that of their information reasons- person played an important relation successful checking amerciable mining and overloading of vehicles, making Bihar the archetypal authorities successful the state to instrumentality specified an initiative.
Stating that the section had collected ₹1600 crore gross successful 2021-22 which accrued to overmuch much than treble to ₹3536 crore successful 2024-25, Mr. Sinha exuded assurance that the section volition easy conscionable its gross people collections of ₹3800 crore arsenic it has, truthful far, raked successful much than ₹3000 crore.
The section expects to collect ₹200 to ₹300 crore successful the period of March too the section expects to get ₹500 to ₹600 from different enactment departments, helium said.
