Report probes Goa 'illegal mines'

6. October 2011 booth 07: 07 GMT 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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The report shows 16 'greenest companies'

15. September 2011 stand 06: 06 GMT one of the 16 highlighted Kenya's equity Bank, a report is running a mobile banking service has 16 companies from developing countries, that best identifies how profits are displayed at the same time actively dealing with ecological and social challenges grow as.

The study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) companies in countries such as Costa Rica, Egypt and China detected.

WEF said that it showed that global "green" companies were not the only ones with sustainability credentials.

The report considered 1,000 companies in developing countries.

'Positively influence'

Co-author of the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the study said the results were doubly interesting "given the challenges of emerging market companies, often several problems".

It said these local difficulties between low quality infrastructure and weak regulatory environmental regimes, acute talent shortage and underdeveloped governance practices.

One of the companies, which the new sustainability champions report highlights Filipino was Manila water company.

The report says that the company community has been used partnerships, watershed management, and flexible payment options, to increase access to clean water.

Another company to 16 preisstabilsten was Kenya equity Bank, which said the study had developed mobile banking in the rural areas of the country.

"Performance and efficiency, the new sustainability champions show while superior industry innovation, to overcome the real limitations that they have," said Knut Haanaes, BCG partners.

"they engage proactively with all stakeholder groups and to affect positively their environments."

"This has the effect, they generate reliable profitable growth and are role models for their regions and sectors."

The report continues, is that to make the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.

Source: World Economic Forum/BCG

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