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1. No quarrying operations shall be carried out without obtaining Development Permission of the Competent Authority.
2. The quarrying and mining operations shall be permitted outside CRZ and Ecosensitive Zone notified under Heritage Regulations but only at specific locations decided by the Competent Authority. The development permission shall be granted subject to production of order to carry out these activities from the Revenue Authority concerned under the Minor Minerals Act and NOC of the MPCB.
3. The application for Development Permission for quarrying / mining shall also include:-
a. Original 7/12 extract alongwith a location Plan at 1:500 scale of the quarry site and an area upto 500 meters around the quarry site showing important natural and man made features and contours;
b. A site plan at 1:500 scale showing site boundaries, contours, all existing natural and man-made features such as hills, water courses, trees and other important landscape features, access roads, buildings and other structures;
c. Proposed excavation plan and cross sections at 1:500 or larger scale prepared by recognised qualified Geologist, showing proposed phasing; terracing; stepping; benching slopes; locations of process equipment’s; diversion of water courses; impounding lake; storage areas for top soil, waste material, quarried materials; workers housing; landscaping including screen planting, mounding, and measures against visual intrusion etc;
d. A restoration plan including landscaping proposals, phasing and proposals for reuse of the area after quarrying;
e. A report supplementing the excavation and restoration plans, costs and implementation programme;
f. Scrutiny fee as per Appendix - III.
g. Development charge for the land under quarrying.
4. No quarrying shall commence until the excavation plan is also approved by the Director of Geology and mining, Govt. of Maharashtra, Nagpur.
5. The Restoration Plan approved by the Competent Authority shall be carried out in consultation with officer concerned of the Forest Department, and the Revenue Authority.
6. Natural gradient of slope should be maintained during quarrying operations, slope of the footwall side (slope in the direction in which mining does not exist) should be properly stabilised by planting adequate trees of suitable species so as to have soil binding vegetation.
7. In case of murum quarrying, entire weathered soil or murum shall not be excavated exposing hard rock; instead, a capping of at least half a meter be left so that it can support vegetation and plantation that will be done later on. Similarly these operations shall not cause depression below the average ground level.
8. Watercourse, if any from a higher slope, should be properly diverted out of quarry area so that minimum water flows into the quarry and is safely channeled out of any nearby human settlement.
9. During quarrying operations, water should be sprayed at least once in a day over the roads at quarry sites and nearby area.
10. Kachha road leading to quarry site shall be invariably sprayed by water during the period of movement of trucks. In addition, in order to minimise dust pollution, measures such as adoption of hoods at transfer points, vulcanizing of conveyer belt joints, under belt cleaning devices, apart from installation of dust suppression and /or dust extrication system for conveyance shall be adopted. The Kachha road leading to the quarry shall have roadside plantation in order to arrest the dust pollution.
11. No quarrying and crushing shall be permitted if a highway or public road having width of 30 m. or more, railway line or any human settlement is located within 200 metres from the quarrying site. However, for quarrying with blasting operations, this distance shall be at least 500 m.
12. Residences for labourers and related temporary structures should be constructed at least 500 metres away from the place of blasting and quarrying. Heavy blasting by use of heavy machinery shall be prohibited.
13. The development permission for quarrying shall be granted for period of 1 year and may be revalidated every year for a maximum period of 3 years. After this fresh permission for further quarrying will be necessarily. In granting such fresh permission, the Competent Authority shall have regard to the applicant's performance in observing the approved excavation and restoration plans, and in carrying out the quarrying operations in accordance with these guidelines.
14. The applicant shall deposit and keep deposited for stipulated period Security Deposit for the due performance of the conditions attached to the permission granted under Commencement Certificate.
The Security deposit shall be forfeited either in whole or in part at the absolute discretion of the Competent Authority for any breach of the stipulated conditions. In other cases the deposit shall be refunded on expiry of the stipulated period. This security deposit shall be paid in full before the issue of commencement certificate at the rate of Rs. 10/- per sq. m. of plot area.
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