Section 34: Manner of exercise of preferential rights for mining lease
Mineral Concession Rules,1960State Rules of Chhattisgarh · 1957
A mining lease to any person who has a preferential right thereto under sub-section (1) of section 11, may at his option, be granted to him either for the whole of the area for which he holds the prospecting licence or such part or parts thereof as he may select but the State Government may for any special reasons to be recorded in writing reduce the area or exclude a portion therefrom.
3 [35. Preferential rights of certain persons:- Where two or more persons have applied for a reconnaissance permit or a prospecting licence or a mining lease in respect of the same land, the State Government shall, for the purpose of sub-section(2) of Section 11, consider, besides the matters mentioned in clauses
(a) to (d) of sub-section (3) of section 11, the end use of the mineral by the applicant.]