JAMMU: Secretary Mining, Amit Sharma, today chaired a meeting regarding the launch of a Point of Sale (PoS) based online penalty imposition system in the Mining sector to curb the menace of illegal Mining activities in the Union territory.
The initiative is aimed at bringing transparency in the Mining sector besides ensuring every violator is brought into books.
Among others Director of Geology and Mining, O P Bhagat, State Informatics Officer, Saleem Khan, both Joint Directors of Geology and Mining Nisar Ahmed and Harbans Lal, DMO Jammu, Gulshan Kumar, IT experts of the department and concerned officers and officials of Mining Department.
Secretary listened to the viewpoints of all the participants, especially Inspector Gowhar Ahmed representing Traffic Police headquarters who played a vital role in implementing the PoS-based challaning system in the Traffic Department. It was decided that timelines shall be drawn to implement this PoS-based penalty system in Mining Department as soon as possible.
Amit Sharma emphasized that since this system has already been applied in different departments of J&K and many other organizations in other states and UTs, it should be replicated here by the Mining Department for maximizing revenue besides bringing maximum efficiency in curbing illegal mining in the UT.
It was decided in the meeting that a concept document on the subject shall be created by the department which shall be circulated among all experts and finalized before the next meeting.
