The government will scrutinize jade mining companies in Hpakant town of Kachin State, forbidding new companies and companies with expired licenses from operating in the jade mining business, Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham said on Sunday.
Dr Sai Mauk Kham told Hpakant residents
that jade stone should be protected for the next generation and that the
government is currently drafting a law on jade mining.
During the meeting with the Vice
President, local residents submitted their complaints about rivers
becoming extinct due to companies dumping soils on the river banks,
flooding of the Uru Stream and bad transportation between Hpakant and
Myitkyina.
Respective ministers told the residents
that the government has formed a team to clean up Uru Stream and created
an organisation for regional development.
Companies have been instructed to dump
the soil and other waste materials 300 metres from city, villages, and
streams, according to the ministers.
source: Eleven Myanmar
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