India, March 19 -- Saranda, Chaibasa in Jharkhand had large reserves of iron ore, wrote Jharkhand's chief secretary

A committee set up by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to reassess mining regulations contained in the 'Management Plan for Sustainable Mining (MPSM) in Saranda and Chaibasa in Singhbhum district, Jharkhand', met for the first time on January 16, 2020.

Down To Earth has access to the minutes of the meeting.

Saranda and Chaibasa - in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district - had large iron ore reserves, DK Tiwari, the state's Chief Secretary, wrote in a letter to the MoEFCC on March 2019.

The letter contained a request to 'revisit' the Management Plan for Sustainable Mining (MPSM), which regulat...