Panaji, April 5 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday hailed the resumption of mining exercise within the state after a niche of almost 12 years and termed it a “historic day”.
“It is a Historic Day for Goa. I congratulate Vedanta for the graduation of mining in Bicholim (in North Goa). This has revived one of many key financial spine of the state of Goa,” CM Sawant stated in a submit on social media platform X.
He additional stated that the stakeholders, folks and the state confronted many hardships as a result of ban on mining since 2012.
The CM additionally thanked the Union authorities led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “continued help to resolve the problem”.
“With the constant efforts of our authorities, we carried out a clear course of to public sale the mining blocks within the state. With this many stakeholders shall profit to create employment and the state shall profit with the improved income,” he stated.
“The elevated revenues to the state shall result in enhanced potential of the state to speculate extra in welfare schemes, infrastructure growth within the state, and take the state in direction of Viksit Goa,” CM Sawant added.
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