-Newsclick.in Vedanta has halted operations and appealed to the Supreme Court against an NGT order which held an environmental clearance as necessary for the purpose. New Delhi: Did the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Goa help Vedanta jump the law in order to sell iron ore overseas even as a state-wide ban continues to be imposed on its Mining by an order of the Supreme Court of India? After purchasing 1.44 million...
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Government eases public hearing rules for legacy Mining cases -Mayank Aggarwal
-India.Mongabay.com * In its latest decision, the Indian government’s ministry of environment has come out with an order to help a certain category of Mining projects avoid public hearing while seeking environment clearance. * This decision is mainly for projects which were granted environment clearance under environmental impact assessment notification 1994 after a public hearing was conducted. * But experts note that public hearings should be understood as a critical tool for good...
More »Indiscriminate Mining has irreversibly damaged Aravallis, suggest documents -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times An affidavit enclosed with the application submitted by YS Malik, principal secretary, mines and geology, in March 2010 said in the Aravallis, opencast Mining is followed, and stocks once mined are removed from the site and can never be replenished Haryana has sought the resumption of stone Mining in the Aravallis over a decade after the Supreme Court in 2009 suspended extraction of all major and minor minerals in the...
More »The limits to India’s privatization push -Arjun Srinivas
-Livemint.com * Privatizing more PSUs is once again the flavour of the season. But data reveals govt is ignoring some hard truths * There are only a handful of sectors where a disproportionate market share and the nature of business gives government firms a case to command a premium About 10 days after the central government iterated on the floor of Parliament its resolve to privatize businesses owned by it on a scale...
More »A peek into Jharkhand’s mica mines where child labour & illegal Mining are no secret -Praveen Jain and Simrin Sirur
-ThePrint.in The mica Mining industry today operates via unlicensed middle men and labourers who scavenge for mica in large abandoned mines, or dig holes into the earth for scraps. Giridih, Jhumri Telaiya: For generations, families living in the Koderma and Giridih districts of Jharkhand have survived on the collection and trade of mica — a shimmery, translucent mineral used in cosmetics and automobiles. The Mining of mica was once a legal, thriving business...
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