Indian Bureau of Mines to Create Individual Portal for Mines Ministry Under PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan.

August 17, 2022

In compliance with the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan, Ministry of Mines entrusted the responsibility for creation of individual portal to Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) through BISAG-N (Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo informatics).
So far, two data layers have been created. The first layer covers the spatial data of Mineral concessions which included existing mining lease and existing composite license granted through auction. The second layer includes mineral auction block which have been auctioned successfully but execution of mining lease is pending.
Spatial data of around 3154 mining leases (both working and non-working including auctioned blocks) covering 297200 Ha area all over the country have been uploaded on the portal, which is being validated, a ministry of mines statement said.
The process of validation is likely to be completed by the end of this month.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched PM Gati Shakti – National Master Plan for multi-modal connectivity, on 13th October, 2021.
Infrastructure creation in India had suffered multiple issues including lack of coordination between different implementation agencies as well as information gap leading to cost and time over run-in implementation of projects.
These issues not only led to public inconvenience but also deprived the country of having world class infrastructure.
To address this, efforts were put in place to increase coordination between different agencies, make available all the available and required information for infrastructure creation on a web-based platform.
Steps have also been taken to address other issues like time-taking approval process, multiplicity of regulatory clearances etc.