Mining gets portal to monitor activities

Ensuring complete transparency, accountability and speeding up mining-related activities across the country, the ministry has developed a portal which would facilitate in expediting the clearances associated with the mining blocks and help all stakeholders to track status of statutory clearances, an official statement said, adding that Power, Coal, and Mines Minister, Piyush Goyal has launched Transparency, Auction Monitoring and Resource Augmentation (TAMRA). In this connection, the Ministry of Mines has developed the TAMRA portal and mobile application to speed up mining activity in India and facilitate all the stakeholders to track the status of the statutory clearances associated with mining blocks till their commissioning. TAMRA will be an interactive platform for all stakeholders to compress the timeliness for statutory and other clearances. Further, TAMRA covers block-wise, state-wise, and mineral-wise information of the blocks to be auctioned and also monitors various statutory clearances and highlights the additional resources generated through e-auction, it added.