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27 violations by news channels in first 14 months of NDA govt

It stands at 90% (or 27 of 31) in comparison to 42% (or 16 of 38) during the past 14 months of UPA-II

CCEC meeting: Govt to discuss states mineral auction preparedness

Will also be discussing the identification, demarcation and assessment of the mineralisation for the mineral block areas

JSW Steel increases managerial pay by 33%

However, average increase in employee salary was only 6.3%

Fund crunch tests mettle of steel industry

Make in India push has done little for the sector. Bellwether projects have been plagued in the face of cheap imports & lack of captive raw material linkages

Govt: No monetary incentives for mineral exploration

Only a fourth of explorers filed mineral data in seven years

State governments granted 401 reconnaissance permits and 920 prospecting licences between November 2007 and December 2014

Mineral production goes down in 2014-15

Coal production fell to 541.2 million tonnes in 2014-15 from 563.1 mt in 2013-14

Centre plans external audit for mines not inspected

Proposal follows poor plan implementation by companies

Why NGOs are ending up on the wrong side of the law

Segment account reporting makes companies jittery

Any engineer should be allowed to prepare mining plan: Centre

At present, an engineer with five years' experience in a supervisory capacity in field of mining is allowed to prepare the plan

Making company registration easy

PSU defence firms get accounting exemption

Mineral end-use to be decided by states

The states can also decide the eligibility criteria for auctions

Mineral auction eligibility can be changed for tribal areas

This is a major shift in central govt's stance as no such powers were given in draft mineral auction rules

Odisha, Chhattisgarh, MP line up mines for auction

Government planning fresh mining exploration rules

The recently notified mineral auction rules have nothing on granting non-exclusive reconnaissance permit, required for preliminary exploration

Decoding the mystery of falling company registrations

In 2014-15, about 64,000 enterprises got registered, a drop of 35%

Prior green nod not needed for mine auction

Draft rules proposed states obtain conditional clearance beforehand

Goa asks Centre to allow mine waste dumping outside lease area

The Goa government had made this request earlier, too, without success