{"id":406452,"date":"2021-03-23T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406452"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:07:22","slug":"oppn-parties-protesting-bill-to-amend-mining-norms-clears-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oppn-parties-protesting-bill-to-amend-mining-norms-clears-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppn parties protesting, Bill to amend mining norms clears Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid protests by the Opposition, Rajya Sabha Monday passed The Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2021. The Bill proposes to remove restrictions of end-use for future auctions of mineral mining rights, allow operators of existing captive mines to sell up to 50 per cent of minerals extracted in a year, and empower the central government to conduct auction of mines if state governments do not conduct auctions in a timely manner. <\/p>\n<p>Union Minister for Mines Pralhad Joshi, who moved the Bill, said there are eight major reforms to generate employment, redefine mining exploration, and to increase the sector\u2019s GDP contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid protests by the Opposition, Rajya Sabha Monday passed The Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2021. The Bill proposes to remove restrictions of end-use for future auctions of mineral mining rights, allow operators of existing captive mines to sell up to 50 per cent of minerals extracted in a year, and empower the central government to conduct auction of mines if state governments do not conduct auctions in a timely manner. Union Minister for Mines Pralhad Joshi, who moved the Bill, said there are eight major reforms to generate employment, redefine mining exploration, and to increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406452","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}