Since minerals are such large stores of wealth, extreme transparency is required to safeguard it. We strongly recommend that the Goa government must adopt best in class transparency and control standards. How else will the common citizen know how their inheritance was used? The Extractive Industry (aka mining) has over 40 transparency initiatives such as EITI and PWYP. The World Bank and UNEP …
Tag: Transparency
CAG’s 2015 report on Goa mining
The CAG’s performance audit report on mining in Goa was recently released. Of the 88 leases renewed, only 3 leases were executed and registered by July 2015 (the last were renewed on 12-Jan-2015). Large errors were observed in the stamp duty amount collected in two cases. The stamp duty to be collected was Rs. 14.25 crores. Instead, only Rs. 9.75 crores …
Satellites & drones
Strong controls & high transparency over mining is one of our key supporting recommendations. Aerial imagery is an obvious technology that can be used to monitor illegal mining, the forests, rivers, transport and much else. The World Bank has a fascinating blog post on the various ways that satellite and drones can be used by civil society for monitoring. Imagery is becoming higher resolution, more …