{"id":35819,"date":"2018-11-01T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35819"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:23:07","slug":"price-of-rapacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/price-of-rapacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of rapacity:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/price-of-rapacity\/article19430992.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price of rapacity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has laid down a benchmark for action against illegal mining<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The apex court has also set a significant benchmark for stringent action against those who indulge in mining without environmental or forest clearance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the Central Empowered Committee had recommended compensation to the extent of 30% of the value of the iron ore and manganese ore illegally mined in Odisha, but the court has been firm about not compromising on the quantum of compensation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The apex court has been passing a series of orders on illegal mining activity, notably in Goa and Karnataka.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court has asked the centre to take a fresh look at the National Mineral Policy, 2008, which seems to be only on papers and not being enforced.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Key points:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court has firmly ruled that any excess extraction within the leased area would amount to unlawful mining. Every renewal of a mining lease would require such clearance, even if there is no expansion, modernization or increase in the pollution load.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court\u2019s verdict came on a PIL, filed by NGO Common Cause, and had sought immediate intervention in the matter, saying that the Justice MB Shah Commission has pointed out large-scale illegal mining in the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also said any mining activity carried out after 7 January 1998 without a forest clearance amounted to illegal or unlawful mining in terms of the Act attracting 100 per cent recovery of the price of the extracted mineral.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price of rapacity:\u00a0 Context: The Supreme Court has laid down a benchmark for action against illegal mining Introduction: The apex court has also set a significant benchmark for stringent action against those who indulge in mining without environmental or forest clearance. Even the Central Empowered Committee had recommended compensation to the extent of 30% of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/price-of-rapacity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Price of rapacity:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704776149},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}