 "A worker carries a container filled with drinking water at a railway coal yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Photo: Reuters")
To promote zero-waste mining, the government is likely to relax the ceiling for sale of surplus minerals extracted from an end-use-linked block.
The Centre had earlier planned to allow sale of 10 per cent of the quantity extracted in the open market. A company that hold mining blocks linked to an end-use project cannot sell the entire quantity of extracted minerals. It can only use the minerals for its facility.
Government officials said any mineral extracted from a mine should not go waste. Therefore, the miner should be allowed to sell the mineral in the open market or even export it. “Even
