New Delhi: After reports on illegal mining in Bellary felled Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Centre on Friday made a strong pitch for partial lifting of the ban on extraction of iron
India's Supreme Court has allowed state-run NMDC Ltd. to operate two iron-ore mines in the southern state of Karnataka's Bellary district, a lawyer involved in the matter said Friday.
A week after it suspended mining operations in Karnataka’s Bellary district, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), a public sector enterprise, to
The Supreme Court, which earlier suspended mining operations in the Bellary area, on Friday partially lifted the ban and allowed the public sector National Mineral Development Corporation to undertake mining in two leases to cater for the domestic market.
In a relief to the domestic steel industry, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed state-owned NMDC to operate its two mines for production of one million tonne iron ore per month in Karnataka’s Bellary district.
Karnataka-based iron and steel makers say that it might prove difficult for NMDC to fulfil Supreme Court's order of one million tonnes per month supply to the industry.
NMDC The Supreme Court marginally relaxed its tough stand on mining iron ore in Karnataka's Bellary region, allowing only public sector NMDC to operate there. Private operators have been stopped from further mining and export.
