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PANAJI
Leader of the House and PWD Minister Sudin Dhavalikar said that in order to clear the ambiguity which resulted from Wednesday’s discussion on the floor of the Assembly on the mining issue, he was announcing that the outcome of the discussion was the formation of this committee.
The Government of Goa has decided to constitute an all-party committee under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to decide a strategy on how to take forward the mining issue.
“In pursuant to yesterday’s discussion held in the House on the mining issue, the government has decided to constitute an all-party committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister to decide the strategy of resuming continuing mining activity in the State and to follow up the matter with various agencies and if required the same committee will meet PM,” Dhavalikar said during the zero hour.
The Speaker referred to Curchorem MLA Nilesh Cabral’s demand to convert Wednesday’s calling attention motion into a unanimous resolution, saying it was not permitted by the rules of the House.
“Cabral was requesting to convert the calling attention in to a resolution, there are rules of the House, we have to abide by them,” Sawant said.
After a lengthy discussion on Wednesday, the goverment had only said that they would draft a policy after taking
all stakeholders in confidence.
