Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 25: The Jammu & Kashmir RTI Movement today said that Government’s new rules on Mining and Minerals will promote carbon emissions as hot and wet mix plants and stone crushing units are no-more required to obtain licenses and Govt permissions.
In a statement Chairman RTI Movement Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat said that India being a signatory to the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, adaptation and finance needs to take due precautions while dealing with carbon-emitting industrial units.
He said that the way the Govt has given a free hand to people and companies to set up hot and wet mix plants and stone crushing units, “makes it clear that Govt is not serious about climate action and reducing carbon emissions in Jammu & Kashmir which is an ecologically sensitive place.”
He said that the new rules say that a stone crushing unit or a hot or wet-mix plant is not a mining unit but a processor of minerals obtained from a source with a valid mineral concession.
He said that such units shall be regulated by law, rules and other provisions applicable to industrial units.
“Instead of promoting industrial units with very less carbon emissions, the Government has given a free hand to pollution causing industries. Rule 3 (2) says that no permission or license is needed to set up new stone crushing factories and hot/wet mix plants in J&K,” he said.
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