PANJIM: The Directorate of Mines and Geology has asked the Goa Electronics Limited (GEL) to clear all the pending applications of mining truck owners by August end.
GEL, the nodal agency for clearing the applications after scrutiny, has so far received 6,756 applications of truck owners of which 5,051 have already been approved and the amount sanctioned. The truck owners are provided financial assistance upto Rs 12,000 per month with retrospective effect from October 1, 2012.
Assistant Director of Mines Parag Nagarcekar said that directions are been issued to GEL to clear all pending applications by August 30. There are 1,705 applications pending with GEL, he said.
Nagarcekar said that there are another 1000–odd applications of truck owners, received from other parts of the State, after the scheme was modified and its benefit was extended to talukas other than the mining talukas.
State government has recently sanctioned around Rs 12 crore for implementation of the scheme. The total of around Rs seven crore has already been disbursed in the bank accounts of the respective applicants.
The government had in March announced financial assistance schemes to people working in the mining sector. GEL has received around 1,900 applications under unemployment scheme, of which 100 have been sanctioned.
