Rs 1573 Crores Collected from Coal revenue by Burdwan in 2012-13, increased by five times in three years - results of conducive environment for coal mining and better collection strategy

Coal mining operations in Raniganj Coal Fields Areas contributes a substantial revenue to State Govt in the form of Coal Cess & Royalty, Surface Rents, Water Rents and Land Revenue from mining lands held by coal companies and sand stowing used in refilling etc.

• District administration monitors and supervises the collections from Coal companies like ECL, EMTA, ICML, IISCO and other private miners.
• All the collections are assessed and collected by Govt agencies at district level under the overall control of District Administration. Chief Mining Officer under Commerce & Industry department, Dy Cess Collector Asansol, Commissioner Commercial Taxes and Land & Land Reforms department officers are involved in assessment and collection of the taxes and rents.
• District administration ensured well planned monitoring system, assessment and collection reviewed regularly with all the agencies and coal companies in last three years. At the same time, Coal companies also got best conducive environment for coal mining in few years, with almost no labour unrest affecting production, cessation of illegal coal mining due to strict enforcement policy of State and easy clearances of Govt agencies for lands and other issues that helped increasing coal production.
• We could realise most of the revenue dues and also collected long pending arrears through regular persuasions.
• Here are the results :-
• Total collection by District Officers in Burdwan Treasuries in 2012-13 stood at Rs 1573 Crores as on 31st March 2013.
• It was Rs 292 crores only in 2009-10.
• Collections from coal mining increased to Rs 454 Crores next year in 2010-11
• It further increased to Rs 1444 crores in 2011-12, record growth
• This year collection stood at Rs 1573 crores. Thereby, revenue increased five folds in last three years.

As per assessment Burdwan Collected approximately Rs 1800 crores from Coal revenues in the current year including some of the funds deposited at Kolkata Office by Coal companies not shown in Rs 1573 crores.