Vasco | Aug 19, 2015: Power Minister and Mormugao MLA Milind Naik distributed sanctioned letters to over 53 mining affected people from Headland Sada. Earlier, around 300 mining affected people from Mormugao taluka had been enrolled under the government scheme providing financial assistance to people who have been adversely affected by mining closer in state.
Those who have been enrolled under the scheme are mostly contract labourers working at Mormugao Port under different contractors, besides that there are few who were working at different positions with different mining companies but had to lose their jobs after imposition of mining ban in the State in 2012.
“I understand the hardships faced by my constituents as there was little delay due to some technical complications and there people had to wait for almost two years to get the benefit of financial assistance from the government however now arrears of rupees 90 thousand to Rs 1.80 lakhs would be directly debited in the accounts of the beneficiaries of this scheme within 90 days while an amount of rupees 3000 to rupees 6000 would be received by the people enrolled under the scheme from Mormugao constituency,” Naik told reporters after distributing sanctioned letters to the mining affected people on Tuesday.
(Source: http://www.goacom.com/)