Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Sarangal on Monday ordered the officials of mining and revenue departments to complete the demarcation of all mining sites in Shaheed Bhagat Singh (SBS) Nagar through Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) by evening to ensure no hindrance to the legal mining operations.Presiding over a meeting with the officials of various departments, Deputy Commissioner said that a Junior Engineer rank officer would be deployed at each legal mining site and would ensure every contractor works in full potential.He asked them to ensure that legal mining operations must not be affected so that common people do not suffer any kind of difficulty in getting the sand on affordable rates. DC said that every vehicle carrying the sand must carry valid documents.
Directing the officials to adopt zero tolerance towards the persons indulging in any sort of illegal mining and register FIRs against them promptly, DC also asked the officials to carry out surprise checking for effective monitoring over the illegal mining.DC told additional force would also be deployed with the mining officials. Sarangal said that the district administration was committed to ensure no illegal mining takes place in the district.The Deputy Commissioner said that the officers would be held accountable if illegal mining takes place in their respective area.He stated that the primary aim of all these steps was to ensure that illegal mining wiped out.In the meeting, he also sought the reports of the action taken on the earlier complaints or FIRs by the administration and asked the officers to ensure strict enforcement of all legal provisions to check illegal mining, if any, in the district.On the occasion, Additional Deputy Commissioners Jasbir Singh, Amardeep Singh Bains, SDMs Deepak Rohilla, Dr Baljinder Singh Dhillon, SP Manvinderbir Singh and others mining officers were present.