Mining in India is about livelihood, deforestation, pollution, and a lot more. The New Mineral Policy deals with all this by simply hoping corporates will turn into good citizens. After two-and-a-half years of wrangling between mineral-rich states and the centre, between steel-makers and iron ore miners, India now has a new National Mineral Policy
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/anatomy-non-policy
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pollution
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cse-study
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-mineral-policy-2008