Mining Dept News Today

The state department of mines and geology in Ranchi has notified mass scale transfers of mining officers and geologists. Find out more about the transfers in this article.

Just about three months after mining in the border districts of Punjab came under the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s scanner, the state has decided that legal mining would not be allowed within a kilometre of the International Border (IB).

The ongoing uproar on illegal mining in the Aravallis, amongst other factors, has brought the Mining and Geology Department of the state under the scanner.