27. Application for grant of quarrying lease

(1) An application for grant or renewal of a quarrying lease shall be made to the competent authority in Form ‘B’; 

(2) Every such application shall be accompanied by,— 

⁰¹[(a) Copy of PAN card, copy of latest Income Tax Return filed to Income Tax Department, and an affidavit to the effect that the applicant has assessed the income tax, paid the income tax based on the assessment and filed up to date Income Tax Return. In cases where the applicant is not an income tax assessee an affidavit to the effect that he is not an income tax assessee need be submitted.] 

(b) copy of the survey map of the area attested by an officer not below the rank of a Tahsildar of the department of Land Revenue or Assistant Director of the department of Survey and Land Records. The area applied for extraction in each survey number shall be demarcated and coloured red in the map; 

⁰²[(c) the possession and enjoyment certificate issued by the Village Officer concerned in respect of the land from which the minerals are proposed to be extracted. In case the applied area for quarrying lease is not under the possession and enjoyment of the applicant, then a notarized consent letter from the owner of such land shall be submitted to the effect that he has no objection in extraction of minor mineral by the applicant in the event of grant of quarrying lease by the Department of Mining and Geology. In the event of issuance of letter of intent by the Department of Mining and Geology for the grant of quarrying lease, the owner of the land and applicant shall enter into a lease agreement for sufficient period permitting the applicant to occupy the land for mining operations for which application has been submitted. The said lease agreement shall be registered as per the Registration Act 1904.]    

(d) No Objection Certificate, in the case of revenue poramboke lands or lands owned by Local Self Government or forest lands, from the District Collector or Secretary of the Local Self Government Institution or Divisional Forest Officer, as the case may be, to the effect that they have no objection for the extraction of minor mineral by the applicant subject to the provisions contained in these rules; 

(e) certificate of demarcation of the boundaries of areas applied for, issued by an officer of the department of Land Revenue not below the rank of Village Officer who has jurisdiction over the relevant area;        

(f) certificate from the Village Officer concerned to the effect that the land applied for quarrying lease is not assigned for any special purpose by the department of Land Revenue; 

⁰³[(g) xxx] 

01. Clause (a) substituted by SRO 456/2023 w.e.f. 01.04.2023. Prior to substitution it read as

“(a) income-tax clearance certificate from the income-tax officer concerned;” 

02. Clause (c) substituted by SRO 456/2023 w.e.f. 01.04.2023. Prior to substitution it read as

“(c) possession and enjoyment certificate issued by the Village Officer concerned in respect of the land from which the minerals are proposed to be extracted and removed;” 

03. Clause (a) omitted by SRO 456/2023 w.e.f. 01.04.2023. Prior to omission it read as 

“(g) notarised consent letter from the owner of the land applied for quarrying lease to the effect that he has no objection to the extraction of the minor mineral by the applicant, if the land is not in the possession of the applicant;”