Sustainable mining technology need of the hour: Minister Pralhad Joshi

Outlining the importance of start-ups for the mining sector, the coal minister, on Monday, said that start-ups have an essential role to play in developing sustainable mining technology.

Union Minister for Coal and Mining Pralhad Joshi was speaking at the inauguration of the first Mining Start-Up Summit at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

“From 300 start-ups in 2014, in the last nine years, we have touched one lakh start-ups and a hundred unicorns. They have created 900,000 jobs and added a cumulative value of $333 billion. We, however, need to take this further,” the minister said at the inauguration of the summit.