PANAJI: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar will be flying to the US on Thursday from Delhi for a medical check-up and is expected return by the end of this month, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Parrikar is scheduled to be in Delhi on Thursday and is expected to meet the Centre’s GoM to place before it a resolution on mining passed in the Goa legislative assembly on August 3, the official from the chief minister’s Office said. Parrikar (62) is suffering from a pancreatic ailment and had flown to the US on March 7 for treatment.

He returned to the country on June 14. The Goa legislative assembly had, on August 3, passed a resolution urging the Centre to suitably amend the Goa, Daman and Diu Mining Concessions (Abolition and Declaration as Mining Leases) Act, to allow mining leases in the state to be operational till 2037.

The resolution also wanted the Union government to amend the Mines and Minerals Act in order to give mining leases in Goa a 50-year tenure of operation.

