Go after small-scale miners’revenue - IFS to govt

5 per cent, the government did not articulate any strategy in the mid-year budget for mobilising revenue from the small-scale gold mining sector, despite the critical need for it.

However, in spite of the remarkable growth in gold production and exports by the small-scale mining sector, it had not led to any significant growth in mineral revenue, because the government had ignored revenue mobilisation from the sector.

Economic think tank, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has urged the government to devise a strategy to generate revenue from the rapidly expanding small-scale gold mining sector.