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If the bypass is built using these funds then it amounts to taking money from mining companies and giving it back to mining companies," Goa Foundation director Claude Alvares said. "Goa Foundation will challenge this in court if the District Mineral Fund is used to build the bypass. We will ask the court to attach properties belonging to Vedanta, Dempo mining and Fomentos," Alvares said. Panaji: Peeved over suggestions by ruling party MLAs that the 18 kilometer mining corridor will be built using funds from the District Mineral Fund, Goa Foundation has threatened to file a writ petition in court challenging the use of funds meant for mining affected people for building of infrastructure that would only benefit mining companies. Each family can get a new house," Alvares said, addressing reporters.Insisting that the state had lost out on revenue to the tune of around Rs 1,44,836 crore, Alvares said, "This money is being gifted to mining companies..