Deputy Commissioner Aashika Jain while emphasising transparency in operations and intimation to locals of De-silting/mining in the district, said that there should be everything in black and white in Public Domain about the contract awarded. Taking a meeting of Police, Administartive and Mining Officers, she made it clear that immediate action should be taken against the illegal mining activities.
She asked the SDMs to take care of such illegal activities by remaining intouch with thier police counterparts and Mining officers so that no such activity to happen. She also instructed the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Derabassi, Amit Gupta to send Tehslidar and Patwari on a regular interval to the Banur Weir De-siltiing site.
She directed the Drainage -cum-Mines and Geology Department Officials to share the information of other De-silting sites, if approved/awarded to the contractor witout any delay with the local SDM and Police to keep regular monitoring on its operations. The Mining officers apprised the Deputy Commissioner that there is only one operationalised De-silting site Banur Weir in the district and besides it, no other De-silting site or mining site of department exists in the SA Nagar district.
They said that, on case any illegal site comes to fore, they would immediately bringt it into the notice of Police for lodging FIR.Deputy Commissioner urged the SP (Rural) present in the meeting to keep night patrol on Banur Weir Site also. The operations of this site will be carried from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm in the presence of mining officers and under the supervision of CCTV camera monitoring.
She said that everything should be transparent related to this ongoing site to the people and administration including police. She asked the Mining Officials to specify the Length, Breadth and Depth clearly of the site. Executive Engineer Drainage-cum-Mines and Geology, Akash assure that the KML file for this site has all the complete data about the site.
The officers who attended the meeting included ADC (G) Viraj S Tidke, ADC (RD) Sonam Chaudhary, SP (Rural) Manpreet Singh, SDM Derabassi Amit Gupta, SD. Mohali Damandeep Kaur, SDM Kharar Gurmander Singh, DDPO Baljinder Singh Grewal, DRO Dr Amandeep Chawla, EO Zirakpur Ashok Kumar Patharia and other officers.