According to several reports, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has withdrawn the environmental clearance give earlier to 93 mines in the state of Goa following the major scandal.

The Director of Mines of the Goa government had asked the companies working in 90 mines on Monday to stop their work until further review of the matter.

The Justice M B Shah Commission report had showed that the government has incurred huge looses in the sector. The report had pointed out that there are around 100 encroachments outside the mining lease areas by companies in the state. These companies extracted huge amounts of resources from the land between 2006 and 2010, according to the report.

The report had estimated that the total extraction of ore from these encroachments is valued at around

Rs 35,000 crore. However, the state government is Goa appears reluctant to recover Rs 35,000 crore from the mine owners, who have been extracting resources illegally in the state. The judicial panel has recommended that the state government take actions to recover the amount from the mining companies that were involved in illegal mining activities.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said, "We are still examining the report. We will impose penalty on the mining firms which have encroached upon the revenue lands."