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Parliament has cleared the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, recently. The objective of the Act is to invite investments from the private sector, including foreign companies, for mining minerals such as lithium and other critical minerals. Other than lithium, some of these minerals were classified as atomic minerals, including beryl and beryllium, niobium, titanium, tantalum and zirconium.

On 2 August 2023, India’s Parliament passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023 (“Amendment Bill”) to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and...

No worker is retrenched from the services of Coal companies (Coal India Limited/Singareni Collieries Company Limited) on closure of coal mines. Workers are relocated / transferred to other units /establishments for their effective utilization, with pr

We wanted the PM to speak, and he just refused to -- now we have the opportunity, not just in the Lok Sabha, but also in the Rajya Sabha, to lay the government on the mat.

One of these bills will allow the extraction of critical minerals, including lithium, while the second will authorize the extraction of minerals from the expansive coastal regions of the country

The Indian government is set to auction around 90 mines containing critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite. This marks a departure from the previous practice of states conducting the auctions. The move is aimed at making India self-reliant in minerals

New Delhi, Aug 2: Amid persisting logjam between government and the opposition parties over Manipur violence, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 and also the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2023. As Lok Sabha has already passed all the

    new delhi, members of the opposition india bloc parties walked out of the rajya sabha for the second time on wednesday demanding a discussion on the manipur issue besides alleging that the leader of the opposition was not allo

The Rajya Sabha passed the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, which seeks to provide a fixed 50-year production lease for offshore minerals, through auctions as the route to award production leases. The Bill proposes to remove the provision for renewal of production lease and provide a fixed period of 50 years for production similar to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.

India News: India's mining sector is in for a sea change, literally, with Parliament on Thursday passing the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) A