Govt created separate provision for critical mining proposals: Min
New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Union environment ministry said in the Lok Sabha on Monday that as part of an effort to fast-track forest and environmental clearances for critical or strategically important minerals, including rare earth ones, it informed the mines ministry back in March that it had created a provision to consider critical mineral mining proposals separately in its Parivesh portal.
HT reported this earlier in July.
"The ministry of mines through Office Memorandum (OM) dated 20.02.2025 requested the ministry of environment, forest and climate change to fast track Environmental Clearance (EC) proposals of critical and strategic mineral mining projects. Vide aforesaid OM, the mines ministry stated that recent amendments in Mines and...
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