The MoEF, on the contrary, had allowed two years time to the miners to obtain diversion of the entire forest land within their leasehold area

The Odisha government has decided to consult its law department and the Government of India on renewal of 55 working mines with involvement of forest diversion cases.

Says the ill-gotten wealth should be recovered and used for reclamation and rehabilitation

The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) has urged chief minister Siddaramiah to take steps to initiate punitive action against companies involved in illegal mining and the officials who connived with them.

The government is set to change the mining law to allow time-bound clearances for pending projects as it looks to improve the investment climate in the sector badly hit by delays and sluggish econo

Allows Mining In Country’s Best Sal Forest, Elephant Reserve In Jharkhand

New Delhi: The environment ministry’s statutory expert panel, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), has bypassed its rules and earlier orders to clear iron mining projects by three private firms in the country’s best sal forest and the core zone of the elephant reserve in the Saranda forest division of Jharkhand.

The Supreme Court had banned mining in Karnataka in July 2011

The crisis seems to be far from over for the mining industry in Karnataka, Goa and Odisha, the three major iron ore producing states in the country. Though some relief came for the industry in Karnataka last year and again in April this year with the Supreme Court allowing partial resumption of mining operations, normalcy in the sector may not return anytime soon.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from the environment ministry and others on an application filed by Sesa Goa seeking permission to transport, sell and export 4.766 million tonne of already mined iron ore lying at various locations in Goa.

A special green bench headed by Justice TS Thakur issued notice to the Centre, Central Empowered Committee (CEC), which is assisting the apex court in environmental matters, and Goa Foundation, the NGO on whose plea blanket ban on mining operations was imposed last year in the state.

A Parliamentary panel has recommended removal of the provision of 26 per cent profit sharing by coal and lignite miners with project-affected people and replacing it with a system based on royalty payments by the firms concerned.

The amendment was proposed by the Coal Ministry to the Standing Committee, headed by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee.

Seeking modifications to the Supreme Court’s last year's order imposing blanket ban on mining in Goa, iron ore producer Sesa Goa on Tuesday requested for permission to transport, sale and export 4.

House panel approves provision in mining bill requiring a miner to disburse an amount equal to the royalty earned by the govt

AParliamentary panel that examined the proposed new Mining Bill has recommended that coal and lignite miners too be asked to share an amount equivalent to the royalty they pay to the government with the project affected people as against the proposed 26% of profit they make.
A clause in the new Bill had proposed that miners of major minerals like iron ore and bauxite contribute an amount equal to royalty towards a “district mineral foundation (DMF)”, and coal and lignite mines part with 26% of profits towards compensating the project affected. The industry is opposed to this proposal, saying that this would, in effect, take mining tax in the country to 69-70%, the highest in the world.

PANJIM: The Justice (retd) R M S Khandeparkar committee has decided to examine those mining illegalities, which were not reportedly scrutinized by the Justice M B Shah Commission, rather than just verifying the irregularities and illegalities enlisted by the Shah Commission in its exhaustive report on illegal mining in Goa.

More importantly, the committee plans to prepare a roadmap for future of the mining industry in the state. The committee has also decided to seek inputs from anti and pro-mining public, regarding illegal mining in Goa.