Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai, many important decisions were approved

Decisions of the Council of Ministers dated – 30 July 2025: Many important decisions were taken in the cabinet meeting held here today at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai –

1) The Council of Ministers has decided to make necessary amendments in 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, at least 70 percent of the amount 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, cleanliness, housing, overall development of animal husbandry.

2) With the aim of effective control over the excavation and transportation of ordinary sand and to bring transparency in the excavation and regulation of sand, the Council of Ministers repealed the Chhattisgarh Minor Mineral Ordinary Sand (Excavation and Business) Rules 2019 and Chhattisgarh Minor Mineral Ordinary Sand Excavation and Business (for Scheduled Areas) Rules 2023 and approved the new rules “Chhattisgarh Minor Mineral Ordinary Sand (Excavation and Business) Rules-2025”. This will take strict steps to prevent illegal excavation and transportation of sand, so that sand will be available to the general public at reasonable rates. Also, strict adherence to 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 Chhattisgarh Government regarding determination of market value rates of agricultural land was approved by the Council of Ministers, 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 hectare rate. This arrangement will be helpful in avoiding the kind of irregularities that came to light in Bharatmala Project and Arpa Bhainsajhar of Bilaspur. Similarly, along with eliminating the provision of valuing the converted land of rural area two and a half times that of irrigated land, rates will be determined in square meters for the lands of villages adjoining the urban boundary and lands of investment area.

4) In the meeting of the Council of Ministers, the proposal to allot 7.96 acres of land to Chhattisgarh State Cricket Association (cscs) for setting up a cricket academy in Sector-3, Village Parasada of Nava Raipur (Atal Nagar) was approved. With the establishment of a state-of-the-art cricket academy in Nava Raipur, talented players of the state will get international level facilities to enhance their skills and talent. Chhattisgarh state has immense potential in the field of cricket. Many young players of the state have achieved success at national and international level. With the establishment of the cricket academy, players of the state will get a chance to progress in the field of cricket, while Chhattisgarh will get a special identity at the national and international level.