Odisha flags statutory clearance delay to new mineral blocks with Centre
3 min readBy Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Odisha tops the public sale chart by efficiently placing up 48 mineral blocks below the hammer after the modification of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act in 2015, many of the virgin blocks are nonetheless ready for statutory clearances.
Except Ghoraburhani-Sagasahi iron ore block in Koira tehsil of Sundargarh district, the primary block to be auctioned in India below the amended provision in 2016, not one of the virgin mines is prepared for operation but. The mining lease was granted to ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AMNS) India Ltd. The iron ore block was initially bagged by Essar Steel (acquired by AMNS India) by way of an public sale in 2016.
All the 20 service provider mines whose lease interval expired by March 2020 and had been efficiently put up for public sale are operating easily after the switch of the clearances obtained by the earlier leaseholders.
Additional chief secretary, Steel and Mines DK Singh raised the difficulty earlier than Union Mines secretary VL Kantha Rao throughout the latter’s two-day go to to the state to take inventory of the mines and mineral sector.
As a majority of the brand new mineral blocks are iron ore, the foremost hurdles confronted by the brand new leaseholders pertain to land acquisition for compensatory afforestation, rehabilitation and resettlement. Singh reportedly requested the union secretary to resolve inter-ministerial points like forest and environmental clearances and different logistic helps for the evacuation of minerals from the mining websites on the central stage.
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Odisha tops the public sale chart by efficiently placing up 48 mineral blocks below the hammer after the modification of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act in 2015, many of the virgin blocks are nonetheless ready for statutory clearances.
Except Ghoraburhani-Sagasahi iron ore block in Koira tehsil of Sundargarh district, the primary block to be auctioned in India below the amended provision in 2016, not one of the virgin mines is prepared for operation but. The mining lease was granted to ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AMNS) India Ltd. The iron ore block was initially bagged by Essar Steel (acquired by AMNS India) by way of an public sale in 2016.
All the 20 service provider mines whose lease interval expired by March 2020 and had been efficiently put up for public sale are operating easily after the switch of the clearances obtained by the earlier leaseholders.
Additional chief secretary, Steel and Mines DK Singh raised the difficulty earlier than Union Mines secretary VL Kantha Rao throughout the latter’s two-day go to to the state to take inventory of the mines and mineral sector.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
As a majority of the brand new mineral blocks are iron ore, the foremost hurdles confronted by the brand new leaseholders pertain to land acquisition for compensatory afforestation, rehabilitation and resettlement. Singh reportedly requested the union secretary to resolve inter-ministerial points like forest and environmental clearances and different logistic helps for the evacuation of minerals from the mining websites on the central stage.
