IMPLEMENTATION of the projects towards coal and iron ore extraction at Mchuchuma and Liganga mines in Southern Tanzania would start in March next year, the Deputy Minister for Energy and Minerals, Dr Medard Kalemani, said here.
He told the National Assembly that the
projects were expected to be completed by July 2020 under the
supervision of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The deputy minister was responding to a
basic question by Mr Deogratias Francis Ngalawa (Ludewa-CCM), who had
said that the residents of Ludewa have been closely following up
government plans on the projects, whose implementation they thought was
long overdue.
He, therefore, wanted to know when the
residents who had vacated their lands to pave way for the implementation
of the projects would be compensated -- and when such projects would be
implemented.
The deputy minister said that the
residents were supposed to vacate their respective lands between May and
August 2015 to pave way for the implementation of the projects, whose
compensations were approved by government Chief Valuer in August 2015.
He pointed out that the process of
paying the compensations is set to start in June this year under
supervision of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The deputy minister explained that the
projects at Mchuchuma and Liganga were being supervised by the Ministry
of Industry, Trade and Investment through the National Development
Corporation (NDC).
He explained that the projects are
integrated between NDC, with 20 per cent shares, and Sichuan Hongda
(Group) Company Limited of China with 80 per cent shares through a
partnership company -- Tanzania China International Mineral Resources
Limited (TCIMRL).
The Deputy Minister pointed out further
that the government issued licences for major extraction SML 533/2014
dated October 9, 2014, at Liganga area having 30.4 square kilometres and
SML 534/2014 bearing the same date at Mchuchuma area with 25.46 square
kilometres.
Such licences, according to Dr Kalemani,
were issued for a period of 25 years and were expected to expire on
October 8, 2039. He said that the company conducted valuation exercise
of properties for the residents that were covered by the projects
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