Thus, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism is organizing a discussion on the topic at the seminar on ‘Environmental protection and mine rehabilitation’, which is being organized for the second day at the Novotel Hotel.

Minister of Environment and Tourism N.Tserenbat gave opening remarks at the seminar, “In the draft on mine rehabilitation, we included responsibility insurance for mining companies. By doing this, the company will also be supervised by the insurance company, and there will be no more issues like this as a result.

The head of the Environment and Natural Resources Management Department at the Ministry of Environment and Tourism G.Nyamdavaa said, “To bring in more responsibility, our department has formed a team that is making a draft on mine rehabilitation. The bill will state the measures that must be taken in certain cases as well as where and what must be done for rehabilitation.

Currently, of the 27,405 hectars of area that have been used for mining, 1,100 sites or 8,871 hectars of area is deemed in need of rehabilitation.