The Indian mining sector is a casualty of lack of a national mining policy and guidelines, which has prohibited a unified extraction, development, pricing and selling of the product in the domestic and export market across the producing states.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/national-mining-policy-needed
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sushim-banerjee
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/financial-express-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/karnataka
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/iron-and-steel-industry-0
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nickel
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/copper
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-mineral-development-corporation-nmdc