{"id":290688,"date":"2019-09-06T05:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290688"},"modified":"2019-09-06T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T05:38:31","slug":"committee-of-secretaries-suggests-amendment-to-section-defining-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/committee-of-secretaries-suggests-amendment-to-section-defining-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee of Secretaries suggests amendment to section defining \u201cillegal mining\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: A high-level committee of secretaries has recommended amending a section of mining laws that led to a fine of about Rs 19,000 crore levied on Odisha\u2019s iron ore miners to spare a similar burden on state-owned companies and other miners elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The committee \u2014 chaired by Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar and consisting of the cabinet secretary and secretaries of mines, steel, coal, revenue and finance \u2014 has concluded that if the reasoning applied to penalise mines in Odisha was applied to others, it would lead to \u201chuge financial burdens on mining companies, including PSUs and would adversely impact their economic viability\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: A high-level committee of secretaries has recommended amending a section of mining laws that led to a fine of about Rs 19,000 crore levied on Odisha\u2019s iron ore miners to spare a similar burden on state-owned companies and other miners elsewhere. The committee \u2014 chaired by Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar and consisting of the cabinet secretary and secretaries of mines, steel, coal, revenue and finance \u2014 has concluded that if the reasoning applied to penalise mines in Odisha was applied to others, it would lead to \u201chuge financial burdens on mining companies, including PSUs and would adversely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}