PATNA: Bihar’s deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha on Wednesday said that the mines and geology department has recorded a revenue of Rs 3,592 crore in the financial year 2025-26, which is Rs 56.39 crore more than what it achieved in 2024-25.
Sinha, who holds Mines and Geology department, said that the department’s revenue figure was 93 per cent of the annual target of Rs.3,850 crore.
Sinha claimed that department will achieve its revenue collection target of Rs 3,800 crore set for 2025-26 fiscal. “The department has collected Rs 3592.60 crore in the financial year 2025-26 against Rs 3536.21 crore collected in the financial year 2024-25. It collected Rs 56.39 crore more revenue in 2025-26,” he said.
“The department had received Rs 511 crore in 2024-25 from various work departments but it could get Rs 369 crore from work departments in the 2025-26 fiscal, thus causing a loss of almost Rs 150 crore in revenue collection,” Sinha said and added that the department could not get Rs 309 crore from various agencies and departments due to technical reasons at the end of closing hours on March 31, 2026.
The mines department expects to get Rs 32 crore from Railways, Rs 70 crore from RWD, Rs 20 crore from CPWD, Rs 6.5 crore from Patna Metro, Dy CM said while exuding confidence that department would cross its revenue collection target of Rs 3800 crore once these money are transferred to the department, which he expects to receive this month (April).
While highlighting the department’s achievements of one year, the Dy CM asserted that 21 districts have achieved more than their revenue target in 2025-26 and patted the officials of these districts and his department for achieving revenue target.
Giving details of how the department’s revenue collection increased significantly from a paltry collection of Rs 41 crore in 2001-02, Sinha said that revenue collection increased to Rs 263 crore in first five years of NDA regime in 2009-10. It further rose to Rs 1700 crore in 2021-22 and got doubled to Rs 3536 crore in 2024-25, he added.
He said that 78 sand ghats were surrendered that caused loss of Rs 600 crore in revenue collection.
Giving stern warning that to those who surrendered 78 ghats in the state, Dy CM unequivocally asserted that the companies, which surrendered sand mining leases, will not be allowed to participate in the fresh tender for allotment of sand mining lease in the state.
Those who surrendered ghats will not be allowed to participate in the auction, even if they submit tender under other names, he said while adding that the department has issued fresh tenders for auction of 12 sand ghats.
The companies have surrendered their sand mining leases for 78 sand ghats to the department citing massive losses, Sinha said adding that the strict vigil and check on overloading and illegal mining forced them to surrender these ghats.