Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hemant Kumar & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 13/05/2025. An application was received by the NGT filed by Hemant Kumar on behalf of all the villagers of Gram Panchayat Salani Katola, tehsil Nahan, district Sirmaur, Himachal …
The National Mining Regulatory Authority will review sectoral issues and advise the government on policy and strategy, including royalty rates, and would have the power to investigate and launch prosecution against cases of large-scale illegal mining. The mining sector will have a comprehensive legislation as the Group of Ministers (GoM) …
Drafting of norms at final stage New Delhi, July 25: The Government expects to introduce competitive bidding for auctioning coal blocks by the end of financial year. The Coal Minister, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, said his Ministry was in final stages of drafting the norms for competitive bidding, which would bring …
Yielding to pressure from Chhattisgarh and Orissa governments, the Group of Ministers (GoM) has recommended competitive bidding for direct prospecting licences in mineralised areas. The move effectively seals the fate of the mines ministry
The State Board has issued detailed guidelines from time to time to facilitate the process of grant of consent to establish/ consent to operate and to suitably guide/ advise the industries for taking appropriate measures for abatement of pollution. The purpose of developing sector specific guidance manual for Mining projects …
New Delhi: The draft Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act has been changed to make competitive bidding the sole criterion for awarding of mining and prospecting licences. The draft is ready to go to the cabinet and if cleared is likely to be tabled in the monsoon session of …
Mining companies must share profits with local communities says this latest CSE report. Supports the proposal to share 26 per cent net profits and shows that mining industry’s opposition to this has no basis. Mining companies must share profits with local communities says this latest CSE report. Supports the proposal …
The proposed mining law amendment will end the current practice of diversion of benefits meant for people affected by projects in their areas, in the form of royalties, by state governments to their own coffers. With this, the government wants to ensure the new law offers more than a mere …
PANJIM, Putting the brakes on illegal and excess movement of mining trucks, the state Mines and Geology department, has recommended giving specific days for each mine to ply their trucks so as to reduce traffic congestion along the mining belt, as part of a series of measures enlisted in a …
Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the unholy cartelization by the mineral transporters in the mining belt, the Odisha government on Monday asked the concerned district collectors and the Superintendent of Police to find out a mechanism to regulate the ever increasing transporting rates. Besides, the government has also directed the SPs in …
The Union coal ministry has demanded changes in a controversial provision in the new mining legislation which asks companies to share, with local residents affected or displaced by a project, an amount equal to the royalty paid if higher than 26 per cent of their profits. The ministry is worried …
The Union coal ministry today issued a draft of the guidelines being framed for putting in place a competitive bidding regime for allocating coal blocks in the country. Competitive bidding will replace the current practice of allocating blocks to the private sector for notified captive use based on recommendations of …
The mines ministry is understood to have approached the law ministry to ascertain whether the proposed National Mineral Regulatory Authority (NMRA) could be empowered to review the envisaged profit-sharing formula. According to the proposed formula, which the mines ministry had inserted in the initial Draft Mines and Minerals (Development & …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR The Orissa govern ment has put forth proposal before the Centre for introducing value addition system in the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act.
Himani Kaushik The group of ministers (GoM) on mines and minerals (development & regulation) Bill has proposed that corporate groups spread over different sectors should have separate accounts for mining-related activities in order to facilitate sharing of their mining profits with the locals. It said one way of calculating profit …
After an intense battle of nerves spanning for months, the legislation to streamline and regulate growth of mining sector is all set to see the light of the day. A Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to vet the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Bill 2010 has accorded its …
Raipur: The case of Pushp Steel and Mines reverberated in Chhattisgarh assembly, as the Congress party attacked Chief Minister Raman Singh, asking him to divulge the name of the owner of the dubious firm that was granted mining rights in the state in violation of rules. The Congress alleged the …
The moratorium on the further mining leases and renewals is expected to continue for a longer time as the state government is till waiting for redrafting of Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act (India) (MMRD) by centre. Goa Environment Protection Council, which met at Raj Bhavan today, was told …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Although mines minister BK Handique announced after Friday's group of ministers' (GoM) meeting that the contentious proposal for mining companies to share 26% of their annual net profit with the displaced locals was cleared, tribal affairs minister Kantilal Bhuria had in fact surprised others in the GoM by …
Coal mineThe decision of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to force mining companies to share 26 per cent of their profits with local and project affected people hasn
