{"id":22119,"date":"2012-07-29T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T07:03:30","slug":"mines-and-mineral-are-wealth-of-a-nation-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/mines-and-mineral-are-wealth-of-a-nation-sc","title":{"rendered":"Mines and mineral are wealth of a nation: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong><\/span> upheld the Jharkhand government&#8217;s decision to cancel its recommendation to the Centre to grant mining lease in the state to six private firms and said that <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Mines and minerals<\/strong> <\/span>are part of the nation&#8217;s wealth.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of justices <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>R M Lodha and H L Gokhale<\/strong><\/span> gave the ruling rejecting the private firms&#8217; plea that the state&#8217;s act of withdrawing its recommendation to the Centre after making the same was illegal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>&#8220;Mines and minerals are a part of the wealth of a nation. They constitute the material resources of the community. Article 39(b) of the Directive Principles mandates that the state shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good\u201d.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>We, however, do not find any error in the letter of withdrawal dated September 13, 2005, issued by the state of Jharkhand and the letter of rejection dated March 6, 2006, issued by the Union of India for the reasons stated therein.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>&#8220;In our view, the state of Jharkhand was fully justified in declining the grant of\u00a0 mines and minerals lease to the private sector operators and in reserving the areas for the public sector undertakings on the basis of notifications of 1962, 1969 and 2006,&#8221;<\/em><\/span> the bench said in a judgement.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court gave the ruling while dismissing a batch of appeal by Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd and various other firms challenging denial of mining lease to them in the state.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>&#8220;The act of the state government is neither unfair nor arbitrary nor does it suffer from (breach of) the principles of natural justice,&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> the bench said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court upheld the Jharkhand government&#8217;s decision to cancel its recommendation to the Centre to grant mining lease in the state to six private firms and said that Mines and minerals are part of the nation&#8217;s wealth. 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