{"id":717,"date":"2007-10-04T02:05:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=717"},"modified":"2007-10-04T11:59:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:59:40","slug":"new-squad-formed-to-check-mineral-theft-in-orissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/717","title":{"rendered":"New squad formed to check mineral theft in Orissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalingatimes.com\/orissa_news\/news1\/20071004-mineral-smuggling.htm\">Kalinga times reports that <\/a> a new squad has been formed to check the theft of minerals from rich regions in Orissa.<em> Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8230; Orissa government has finally decided to constitute a special enforcement squad to conduct frequent raids to check theft and illegal transportation of various minerals in different parts of the State.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The decision about formation of the special squad was taken at a review meeting organised by the Steel and Mines Department of the State government here on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The squad, to be named State Mining Enforcement Squad, will be headed by a Mining Department official. It will also have an official of the Forest Department and 12 security personnel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The squad will be put in place within a month, the meeting decided.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Steel and Mines Minister Padmanabha Behera who presided over the meeting has requested the Forest and Homes Departments to depute their staff for the squad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In fact, it took the Steel and Mines Department seven months to take a formal decision on the formation of the special squad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a statement issued after a similar review meeting held in February this year, the Department had announced that it would constitute a squad to check smuggling of minerals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Smuggling of minerals has been growing in the State in the recent years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A total of 322 persons were booked by the Mines Department from April 1, 2006 to January 31 this year and fine amount of Rs 3.25 crore was collected from them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Besides, 191 vehicles used in illegal transportation of different minerals were also seized during the period.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope this does not get lost in bureaucratic hassles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalinga times reports that a new squad has been formed to check the theft of minerals from rich regions in Orissa. Excerpts: &#8230; Orissa government has finally decided to constitute a special enforcement squad to conduct frequent raids to check theft and illegal transportation of various minerals in different parts of the State. The decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,40,119,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metals","category-orissa-mining-and-minerals","category-mining-royalty","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}