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The Tamil Nadu authorities has revised the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Rules regarding the usage of funds from the District Mineral Trust for the payment of people and areas affected by mining-related operations.
The Tamil Nadu District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2025, notified a fewer days ago, volition supersede the Tamil Nadu District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2017.
As per the revised rules, if the holder of a mining lease, composite license, quarry lease, oregon licence contravenes the norms regarding contributions to the fund, they volition beryllium penalised with an magnitude equivalent to a one-time outgo of the contribution, successful summation to the publication that indispensable beryllium paid, on with 12% of interest, for the play of contravention.
Earlier, arsenic per the Tamil Nadu District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2017, specified contravention was punishable with imprisonment up to 2 years, oregon good extending to ₹5 lakh, oregon both. In lawsuit of continuing contravention, the punishment included further good that whitethorn widen to ₹50,000 for each time during which contravention continued aft the archetypal conviction.
The District Collector acrophobic would beryllium the chairperson of the District Mineral Foundation Trust, Managing Committee, arsenic good arsenic the Governing Council of the DMF.
All payments of royalty oregon seigniorage interest indispensable beryllium collected with the Trust Fund component, and nary royalty oregon seigniorage interest shall beryllium accepted without mandatory publication towards the Trust Fund.
The rules specify that a minimum of 70% of the Trust Fund indispensable beryllium spent lone connected the straight affected area, arsenic good as for high-priority sectors specified arsenic drinking h2o supply, situation preservation, wellness care, education, and payment of women.
The districts having an yearly postulation of ₹10 crore oregon much shall support an endowment fund, with a tenable magnitude not exceeding 10% of the yearly receipts, for providing sustainable livelihoods. This money shall beryllium utilized to make and prolong livelihoods successful areas wherever mining enactment has been halted.
