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VIOLATION LETTER
REGD POST WITH AD
Phone: 0674-2352463
भारत सरकार GOVERNMENT OF Tele Fax: 0674-2352490
INDIA E-mail:
खान मं ालय MINISTRY OF ro.bhubaneshwar@ibm.gov.in
MINES Plot No.149, Pokhariput
भारतीय खान यूरो INDIAN BHUBANESWAR-751020
BUREAU OF MINES
े ीय खान िनयं क के कायालय
OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL
CONTROLLER OF MINES

To

Shri Sailendra Kumar Das, Agent

Dalphar Iron & Mn Mines

Choudhury Bazar

Cuttack - 753001

rbdasjoda@yahoo.com/ rbdasjoda@yahoo.co.in, Phone No : 9437114867

Sub: Violation of provisions of MCDR, 2017 in respect of your

Dalpahar Iron & Mn. Mines ( Mine Code 30ORI08104) of R B Das
over an area of 4.84 ha in Keonjhar district of Odisha State.
Sir,
The following provisions of Mineral Conservation and
Development Rule, 2017 (MCDR, 2017) were found violated in respect
of the above said mine during inspection on 10.01.2023 by Shri Sanjay
Kumar Mahapatra, Assistant Mining Engineer of this office, in presence
of your representative Shri Akshya Kumar Samal.

Rule Proposed as per Mining Plan/ Violation

No. Rule Position
11(1) i. As per the Review of Mining Plan
approved vide letter No. RMPA/16-
ORI/BHU/2020-21- dated
20.10.2020, the bench height and
width in in the Quarry was
proposed to be of 05 meters height
& 06 meters width.
ii. It was proposed to construct
retaining wall 40 meters in Quarry-
01 and 150 meters of Retaining
wall in Dump-3
iii. It was proposed to drill 10 numbers
of bores during the year 2021-22
iii. No bore holes were
i. During inspection it was
observed that the height
and width of the quarry
benches in the Quarry-2
(southern side of lease)
not maintained as per
proposal and at some
places merger of
benches observed
resulting to more than 10
meters height..
ii. It is observed that the
proposed retaining wall
has not been
constructed.
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drilled during the year

2021-22.
12(4) (4) In the case of existing mining During inspection it is
leases, detailed exploration (G1 observed that the entire
level) over the entire potentially potentially mineralised area
mineralised area under the mining under the mining lease has
lease shall be carried out in the not been explored to G1
manner specified in the Minerals level.
(Evidence of Mineral Contents)
Rules,2015 or the Atomic Minerals
Concession Rules, 2016, as the
case may be, within a period of five
years from the date of
commencement of these rules.] i.e
within 27.02.2022
26(2) The holder of mining lease shall Yearly report on protective
submit to the competent authority and rehabilitative works
a yearly report as per the format carried out as envisaged
specified by the Indian Bureau of in the approved
Mines, before 1stday of July report Progressive mine closure
every year setting forth the extent plan has not been
of protective and rehabilitative submitted.
works carried out as envisaged in
the approved mine closure plan,
and if there is any deviation,
reasons thereof:
31(4) (4) The plans and sections Updated Surface Plan was
required under these rules shall not maintained and could
be maintained up to date not be shown during
within three months in case of inspection.
category ‘A’ mines as referred to
in clause (a) of sub rule
(2) of rule 55,.
33 The holder of a mining lease shall,
on or before the 30th day of June The copy of surface
every year submit to the geological plans and
authorized officer, as the case may sections has not been
be, and the State Government, a submitted for the year
digital copy along with a print copy 2021-22 to the Regional
of the surface geological plans and Controller Mines.
sections maintained under rule 32.
34A. Every lessee, other than those It has been observed that
(2) covered under sub-rule (1),shall soft copy of high
Digital submit soft copy of high resolution resolution Georeferenced
aerial Georeferenced Ortho-rectified Ortho-rectified
images Multispectral satellite Multispectral satellite
of images of the leased area and upto images of the leased area
mining hundred metres outside the lease and upto hundred metres
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lease boundary taken in the month of outside the lease boundary

area April to June of every year, to the taken in the month of April
Controller General on or to June of every year has
before 1st day of July of the that not been submitted for the
year in the standards formats such year 2021-22.
as GeoTIFF along with metadata or
any other format as may be
specified by the Indian
Bureau of Mines in this regard.
.
55(1) Employment of geologists and
3.(iii) mining engineers.-(1) For the During inspection it is
purpose of carrying out found that Mining
reconnaissance, prospecting or Engineer & Geologist has
mining operations in accordance not been employed as
with these rules,– stipulated in MCDR 2017.
3. every holder of a mining lease
shall employ, in case of– (iii)
category 'A' mines, a whole-time
mining engineer and a geologist;
02. In this connection, it is brought to your notice that the above
violations constitute an offence punishable under Rule 62 of MCDR,
2017.

Besides, inability to comply with the provisions of Rule 11(1) is liable

for suspension of mining operations according to the provisions of Rule
11(2) of MCDR, 2017.

03. You are advised to rectify the above violations immediately and
intimate the position to this office within 45 (forty five) days from issue
of this letter.ours faithfully,

(राजेश कुमार दास)

उप खान िनयं क
Copy forwarded for kind information to:
(1) The Director of Mines, Directorate of Mines, Government of Odisha,
Heads of Department Building, Bhubaneswar-751 001
(2) The Controller of Mines (EZ), Indian Bureau of Mines, CP-13, Sector
V Salt Lake City, Kolkata- 700 091.