How to help the mining displaced

An amendment to Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Act is overdue. That amendment will have several dimensions, including processes followed in granting licences. In effect, regulatory structures will change and so will methods for determining royalties. Let's leave those larger issues aside and focus on the Samatha judgment. This keeps cropping up and also figured in the December 2006 report of Planning Commission's high level (Hoda) committee on formulating a National Mineral Policy.

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