Curbing illegal mining via e-transit(e-rawaana) pass in Haryana :

• The Haryana Government has decided to introduce the e-transit pass (‘e-rawaana’) system for monitoring the movement of raw material from mining sites and products from stone crushers and screening plants.
• Secretary and Director General, Mines and Geology, Haryana, has recently ordered mining contractors, mineral dealer licensees (screening plant owners) and stone-crusher licensees to register themselves on the portal of the Mines and Geology Department by September 30. On the successful registration, they would be granted permission for generating and issuing e-transit passes to their buyers for transporting material and mined products.
• Similarly, all vehicle owners intending to transport any mineral in the state shall register their vehicles on the department’s portal from October 1 to October 20, 2019. In case they fail to do so and are found to be transporting minerals without ‘e-rawaana’, it will amount to illegal transportation of minerals/products. The date of commencement of the ‘e-rawaana’ system shall be announced following the completion of the registration process.
• Sources say mining leaseholders issue an one-time royalty slip for vehicles transporting material and products. But, the transporters misuse the slip by using it multiple times.  Following the implementation of ‘e-rawaana’ system, the vehicles will be allowed to transport mineral/products only one time on one pass as loading and unloading details can easily be verified. 
• The system will also help streamline the process of stock verification and quality assessment. It will help curb illegal mining and overloading. It will supplement revenue collection (through mined products) as a check on overloading will lead to a hike in freight.
• All 22 mining leaseholders and 27 of the 177 stone crushers have registered their firms on the portal. The registration of screening plants is yet to begin.

‘E-rawaana’ to help in :

• Streamlining stock verification 
• Improving quality assessment
• Curbing overloading

Illegal Minining in Haryana :

Despite the efforts of the Manohar lal Khattar Government in Haryana to put an end to the menace of illegal mining, sand mafia is still active in various parts of the State.

As many as 892 cases of illegal mining including transportation of mineral without valid documents came to the notice till September last year in the state, as per the available data with the Haryana Government.

Taking action against the violators, 116 FIRs were registered and a penalty of Rs 160.78 lakh has been realized by the government till September 2017. In previous fiscal 2016-17, 1963 cases of illegal mining came to the notice of the government while 121 FIRs were registered.

To keep a check on illegal mining, the State Government had constituted district level task forces. During the current financial year, the State Government had also initiated a special drive to curb the transportation of illegally mined mineral coming into the state from the adjoining states including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Several inter states nakas were also formed to keep a check on such vehicles.

As on February 2018, 88 number of mines were allocated by the government out of total 119 mines.  Out of the allocated, 57 mines are stated to be operational, as per government’s records. Notably, the state had earned the highest ever revenue of Rs 510.63 crore from the mining contracts/ leases during the year 2017-18 (upto December 2017).

The Chief Minister Manohar lal had in a recent meeting directed the administrative secretaries that illegal mining and over loading should be dealt with an iron hand and legal action should be taken against offenders and heavy penalties should be imposed to curb such activities.