India is rich in lucrative minerals, which exported almost half from the Western Indian State of Goa is illegally mined iron ore, the leader of the opposition has claimed State.Manohar Parrikar, also Chairman of the State Government accounts, an alleged mining has a report on was spokesman of the State Assembly presented.
Mr Parrikar claims that the Government does not want halt to illegal mining, what he says is widespread in Goa.
The report is still to be published, but the Goa guide deny wrongdoing.
Chief Minister Digimbar Kamat, the ruling party of Congress, says that he will go down in the report when it is released.
But the content of the report are displayed, have been widely leaked to the media and reports say that this focus is lawful on the extraction of more iron than in the State.
The report is thought to say that the illegal export of illicitly mined ore caused great losses to the Exchequer State, with estimates this scandal could say have cost $712 m (￡ 462 m) around.
The report is also believed to the reference to the participation of politicians, bureaucrats and mining lobbies.
Mr Parrikar report is based on members belong to his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but it has been by the members of Congress.
Correspondents say that it now up to the speaker to decide whether the report in the Assembly or not table.
"Ore 30 million tonnes in laws, regulations, and the rest of the 54 million tons of iron exports this year - more than 20 million tons - is illegal," Mr. Parrikar said in the Goa Assembly on Wednesday.
"The Prime Minister [Digambar Kamat] wants to change the situation in the mining Department and want to punish someone who is guilty."
"A third person is derived, that he is involved in," he said.
Recently, there was a similar mining scandal in the southern state of Karnataka.
In August, Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa had to resign, after the Ombudsman State for his alleged involvement in the scandal accused him. He denied any wrongdoing.
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