Odisha cabinet approves Sand Policy-2021

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | August 27, 2021 IST

Bhubaneswar, Aug 27: The Odisha cabinet on Friday approved 14 proposals including Sand Policy-2021 for ensuring adequate supply of sand for developmental projects and construction works. The objective of the sand policy is to prevent the scope for illegal mining of sand. This policy is in accordance with the environmental regulations, to ensure adequate supply of sand for developmental and welfare projects, private construction works, to prevent the scope of illegal mining of sand and to ensure a robust monitoring mechanism for sand mining with use of IT regulation of the sand mining from identification of source to final end-users. In another relief to the employees in private educational institutions, Cabinet today decided that the Principals of the private educational institutions who were declared as drawing and disbursing officers (DDOs) would be the provisional pension sanctioning authority for the employees other than himself/herself. The provisional pensions of the Principals would be sanctioned by the concerned Regional Directors. The agenda bid for the construction of a thick plastic concrete cut-off wall at the heel of the left side earth dam of Kanpur irrigation project in Keonjhar district was also approved in the meeting. The work would be completed in eleven months.

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