*Cabinet Decisions*
*Date – July 30, 2025*
*Several important decisions were taken in the cabinet meeting held today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai at the Ministry Mahanadi Bhawan -*
1) The cabinet has decided to make necessary amendments to the Chhattisgarh District Mineral Institute Trust Rules, 2015, as per the new guidelines of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India and the revised guidelines of the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY)-2024.
With this, a minimum of 70 percent of the funds available with the Trust will be spent on high priority areas like drinking water supply, environmental protection, pollution control, health, education, agriculture, women and child welfare, welfare of the elderly and disabled, as well as skill development and employment, sanitation, housing, and overall development of animal husbandry.
2) With the aim of effective control over excavation and transportation of ordinary sand and bringing transparency in the excavation and regulation of sand, the cabinet approved the new rule “Chhattisgarh Minor Mineral Ordinary Sand (Excavation and Business) Rule-2025” by repealing Chhattisgarh Minor Mineral Ordinary Sand (Excavation and Business) Rule 2019 and Chhattisgarh Minor Mineral Ordinary Sand Excavation and Business (for Scheduled Area) Rule 2023.
This will ensure that strict steps are taken to stop illegal excavation and transportation of sand, so that sand can be made available to the general public at reasonable rates. Along with this, strict compliance with environmental and safety standards will be ensured in sand excavation. In the proposed rules, the process of sand mine allocation will be done through electronic auction. This will also increase revenue.
3) The proposal received from the Commercial Tax Registration Department of the Government of Chhattisgarh regarding the determination of market value rates of agricultural land was approved by the cabinet, under which the rate of land up to 500 square meters will be abolished for calculating the market value of rural agricultural land, and the entire area will be calculated at the rate of hectares. This arrangement will be helpful to avoid the irregularities that had come to light in the Bharatmala project and Arpa Bhainsajhar of Bilaspur. Similarly, the provision of multiplying the valuation of converted land in rural areas by two and a half times the irrigated land will be abolished, and the rates for lands in villages adjacent to the urban boundary and lands in the investment area will be determined in square meters.
4) In the cabinet meeting, the proposal to allocate 7.96 acres of land to Chhattisgarh State Cricket Association (CSCS) for the establishment of a cricket academy in Sector-3, Village Parsada of Nava Raipur (Atal Nagar) was approved.
The establishment of a state-of-the-art cricket academy in Nava Raipur will provide international level facilities to talented players of the state to hone their skills and talent.
There are immense possibilities in the field of cricket in the state of Chhattisgarh. Many young players of the state have achieved success at the national and international level. The establishment of a cricket academy will provide an opportunity for the players of the state to move forward in the field of cricket, while Chhattisgarh will get a special recognition at the national and international level.
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