AMARAVATI: The Metal Scrap Trade Corporation (MSTC) has issued notice for tenders for sand mining in the State of Andhra Pradesh and stated that technical bids should be submitted by February 4th by the companies interested in taking up the supply of sand. The AP government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a central agency- Metal Scrap Trade Corporation
Government issues spectrum auction notice, auction to start on March 1
January 6, 2021
The Indian government has issued spectrum auctions notification that it earlier announced would take place this year. The auction is scheduled to begin on March 3, with pre-bid conferences and procedural steps to be completed by that time. The public company MSTC Limited, formerly the Metal Scrap Trade Corporation, will be administering the auction online.
“Rights to use spectrum at specified frequencies in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500 MHz bands (subject to fulfilment of eligibility conditions, relevant licence conditions and any particular conditions pertaining to specific frequency blocks) for a period of twenty (20) years” will be auctioned, the Department of Telecommunications said in its bid document.
AP Govt Likely To Tie Up With PSU For Sand Mining, Supply Jan 03, 2021, 14:40 IST
VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh Government is likely to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a public sector undertaking with regards to the mining and supply of sand in the State.
As per reports published in TNIE, the officials of the Mining department might enter into an agreement with Metal Scrap Trade Corporation (MSTC) next week.
Whether the agency will take up the task of implementing the revised sand policy of the State government on its own or it will appoint another agency is yet to be finalised. The AP Principal Secretary (Mines and Panchayat Raj and Rural Development) Gopala Krishna Dwivedi said that the talks are in the final stage with the PSU, after they had received response from several Central agencies about implementing the revised sand policy and explaining the proposal to them.
More than 200 years ago, when Thomas Malthus, a British population scientist, wrote that population growth is destined to be checked by natural resource depletion and inevitable human want and misery, he was primarily emphasising on subsistence and food - a topic that hardly features in our discussions around sustainability today.
A discourse that was thereafter mostly buried within academics, especially demographers and economists, found prominence only when The Club of Rome commissioned a study to a team led by Donald and Donella Meadows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972. The team at MIT simulated a computerised world model and entered into it data assuming that population, industrial production and pollution would continue to grow exponentially in the future as they have in the past. They predicted that as of 1972, the limit was only a generation away.