Patna: The Patna High Court on Tuesday issued a notification to the Mining and Geological Department and the State Pollution Control Board to free up to 1.5 meters of land excavation with a brick kiln and environmental permit.
The bench of the Head of Justice Head of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S Kumar, while hearing the pill filed by One Abhay Kumar, took this matter seriously and also issued a notice to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change, respondents in this case.
The applicant has urged the High Court to cancel the amendments made by the Department and Notice Council of the reasons that they contradict the Ministry command where only small mining activities have been excluded, and not a kiln for large-scale commercial exploitation from the top land.
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Raushan’s applicant’s advisor proposed that the council department and notice contradicted the Terms of Ministry of Ministry of March 2020 and would reduce the quality of the land.
Ministry, in the background of the amendment to the mining and minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, has notified that the extraction of ordinary clay or sand with manual mining, by Potters to prepare ground pots, lights, toys etc.
according to customs are released from environmental permit requirements.
On September 14 last year, the department changed the rules of Bihar minerals (concessions, illegal mining prevention, transportation changes and storage) regulations, 2019 and exercised based on Part 15 of the MMDR Act, notifying that extracting land up to 1.5 meters.
Levels for kiln bricks will be considered non-mining activities and do not require environmental permits.
On the basis of this department’s notification, the pollution council was notified on October 22 last year that brick kiln in the country did not require environmental permission if excavation was carried out to 1.5 meters.
The court has fixed September 7 as the next hearing date.