Goa Mining People's Front, a body of mining dependent people of the state, has urged Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar to reinstate environment clearances immediately so that closed mines can resume operations.
Mining in Goa is closed for more over two years now even as the Supreme Court lifted the ban in April last year and the state revoked closure order imposed in September 2012.
Mining can be resumed after reinstatement of environment clearances, put in abeyance by the Ministry of Environment and Forest on September 14, 2012.
Painting a sorry figure of state for those who depend on the mining sector for survival, GMPF convenor Suhaas Naik, in a letter written earlier this week, said until and unless the MoEF order was withdrawn, no mining operation in the state can start.
GMPF has also reminded the minister of his presence in their agitation in May 2013 at Jantar Mantar which gave them "a lot of energy and motivation to fight against the mining operation in Goa."
"All the Goan mining dependent families have now pinned their hopes on you and are eagerly waiting for your timely actions to pull us out of this despair...," he wrote.
