BHUBANESWAR: The Director of Mines has now been designated by the State Government as the registering authority of trucks or any other vehicle used for transportation of minerals by road. A notification issued by the Steel and Mines Department on Tuesday maintained that all persons and companies owning trucks or any other vehicle intending to transport ores/minerals to which the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 1988 applies would have to make an application to Director of Mines, Odisha to be registered with the said directorate. The application for registration will be made online, it said. The applicant will have to file a declaration online to the effect that he has not been convicted for violation of the provisions of Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, and their rules. If the application will be found to be complete in all respects, the director of mines will give the owner of the vehicle a code number in support of such registration to be displayed in the website. The registration fee per vehicle has been fixed at Rs 500 and it will remain valid for two years, it added. The notification maintained that the registration can be renewed for not more than two years at a time on payment of registration fee and application being made to the registering authority 90 days before its expiry. The detailed procedure for registration will be issued by the Director of Mines to be published in the official website of the Steel and Mines Department. Every lessee will maintain trip sheets (either in the form of written record or on computers) of the vehicles, the nature and weight of mineral and approximate time of the trip and its destination, it added. No truck or vehicle will be permitted to transport mineral /ore on expiry of three months from the date of issue of the notification unless the vehicle is registered with the Directorate of Mines.
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