ECL to submit PIR reports to get land clearances and long term lease.

After review meeting with ECL area managers and land officials on 23rd February at Asansol following decisions and procedures finalised to get clearance of mining plan of ECL :-

1. No piecemeal proposal for LT settlement of vested land for mining purposes be issued but ECL has to conduct joint Preliminary Inspection Reports of total land areas and submit information on lands showing forests,  tribal, patta lands, barga lands, water bodies, raiyati lands and company lands etc with maps.

2. Structures on land like houses, roads, utilities and public property if any must also be shown along with plan of relocation and rehabilitation even of the houses are encroachment provided the family is homeless and landless in such cases.

3. In case there are families to be rehabilitated or occupying the vested lands the first priority will be given to such rehabilitation in settlement of lands. However, vested land can be settled with ECL if they offer suitable land for Rehabilitation.

4. Irrespective of permissive possession or otherwise, fresh LT settlement proposals after PIR must be initiated and valuation to be done at present market rates.

5. Tribal land transfer must have permission of Collector and such permission can be obtained from Collector office at PODWO office Burdwan only. Employment to one adult family member of tribal land losers and land against land is mandatory while granting permission.

6. ECL has been told clearly that for all land acquisition proposals these norms of forest lands, tribal lands and rehabilitation has to be followed.  DPR along with environment clearance is required to process any land acquisition case.

7. Eight land patches of vested lands identified in Salanpur, Jamuria and Hirapur areas for shifting of people from most vulnerable subsidence prone notified sites. Joint verification of these sites be completed by 28th February 2013. On getting clearance of State Govt, ADDA has to initiate DPR for getting the sites ready for rehabilitation as per norms of Master Plan.