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Pleas for mine leases to be processed online

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Pleas for mine leases to be processed online
Pleas for mine leases to be processed online

All mining lease applications will be processed online to ensure greater transparency and check graft, stated Minister for Mining B Srinivas Reddy.

After review meeting with his officials under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K Rosaiah at the Secretariat on Saturday, the minister told newsmen the Chief Minister has directed the officials to implement the process from Kadapa on a pilot basis.

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Based on the response, the government would implement this process in other districts, he said. He also said the state government will announce a new mining policy this year and the resurvey works taken up in Obulapuram would be completed in this week.