KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 23 — Both the Kuala Terengganu and Hulu Terengganu Land and Mine Offices had managed production of rock materials satisfactorily, according to the third series of the 2014 Auditor-General’s Report.

However two aspects, namely management of rock material royalty revenue arrears and monitoring of procedures and regulations should be improved in future.

According to the report, the Terengganu Land and Mines Office showed satisfactory revenue collection but the issuance of mining licence was slow and permanent forest reserves approved for mining leases were not gazetted.

Other weaknesses identified were lack of monitoring activities that had resulted in various violations.

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In view of the weaknesses, the Auditor-General recommended that the three agencies made sure that mining license application process be completed within eight months and policies and regulations of bauxite mining and lorries’ capacity used in transferring of rock minerals be reviewed. — Bernama