AGL 41.82 Increased By ▲ 0.32 (0.77%)
AIRLINK 126.07 Decreased By ▼ -1.93 (-1.51%)
BOP 6.50 Increased By ▲ 0.24 (3.83%)
CNERGY 4.15 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (0.48%)
DCL 8.43 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.12%)
DFML 40.95 Increased By ▲ 0.26 (0.64%)
DGKC 86.80 Decreased By ▼ -1.10 (-1.25%)
FCCL 33.75 Decreased By ▼ -0.35 (-1.03%)
FFBL 65.81 Decreased By ▼ -0.52 (-0.78%)
FFL 10.48 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-0.76%)
HUBC 109.49 Increased By ▲ 0.79 (0.73%)
HUMNL 14.88 Increased By ▲ 0.42 (2.9%)
KEL 4.84 Increased By ▲ 0.19 (4.09%)
KOSM 7.59 Increased By ▲ 0.26 (3.55%)
MLCF 42.40 Decreased By ▼ -0.32 (-0.75%)
NBP 61.35 Increased By ▲ 0.51 (0.84%)
OGDC 179.11 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (0.08%)
PAEL 25.90 Increased By ▲ 0.20 (0.78%)
PIBTL 6.23 Increased By ▲ 0.17 (2.81%)
PPL 145.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.65 (-0.44%)
PRL 24.83 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-0.32%)
PTC 16.20 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.37%)
SEARL 69.69 Decreased By ▼ -0.51 (-0.73%)
TELE 7.35 Increased By ▲ 0.13 (1.8%)
TOMCL 36.36 Increased By ▲ 0.16 (0.44%)
TPLP 7.85 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.13%)
TREET 15.49 Decreased By ▼ -0.10 (-0.64%)
TRG 52.50 Increased By ▲ 2.14 (4.25%)
UNITY 26.99 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (0.33%)
WTL 1.24 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
BR100 9,821 Increased By 26.6 (0.27%)
BR30 29,806 Increased By 158.7 (0.54%)
KSE100 92,209 Increased By 187.1 (0.2%)
KSE30 28,685 Increased By 19.8 (0.07%)

Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) has discussed in detailed matters of tax collection by mineral department, legal status of lease agreements, collection and utilization of ADF/CESS/tax/rahdari from mines and minerals.
The meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Senator Hilal-ur-Rehman here at the Parliament House and was attended among others by Senators Hidayatullah, Ahmed Hassan, Sitara Ayaz, Haji Momin Khan Afridi, Sajjad Hussain Turi, Taj Muhammad Afridi, Minister for States and Frontier Regions, Secretary States and Frontier Regions and representatives from FATA Secretariat and Establishment Division, said a press release here.
Regarding overall working of FATA Minerals Exploration and Development Authority, the committee was given a briefing about the process of mines exploration and development. The Committee was told that the process starts from prospect identification and evaluation, then a pilot plant scale study is conducted which leads to resource estimation, outsourcing of mineral deposits, licensing, leases, revenue collection, inspection of mines rescue, training and infrastructural development.
The Committee was briefed that so 12 exploration licenses were issued and out of these 10 were later cancelled. At present only 2 licenses are in place. The Senate body was given a briefing by FATA Secretariat regarding placement criteria adopted for the officers of Directorate of Monitoring and Evaluation in light of the previous discussion held in the Committee.
The meeting discussed in detail whether the project employees are to be dealt with according to the project policy or the service rules for contractual employees. The meeting of enquiry conducted by the ministry regarding issue of appointments in TESCO. Senators decided to recommend to the Committee on Water and Power to look into the matter of holding similar enquiries of other DISCOs.

Comments

Comments are closed.