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Odisha iron ore mining cap will hurt India’s growth: Govt to SC

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October 30, 2025

Putting a cap on iron ore mining in Odisha will impede India's growth trajectory and sabotage the dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Central and Odisha governments told the Supreme Court which is examining a petition on imposing a cap on extraction, similar to the ones it imposed in Karnataka and Goa in the interest of intergenerational equity in preserving natural resources.

- Abraham Thomas

Telling the court that things have changed since 2013, when the cap on iron ore mining was imposed in Karnataka and subsequently in Goa, two Union ministries — Ministry of Mines (MoM) and Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) — claimed stricter regulatory checks and legal safeguards being put in place to avoid illegal mining flagged by the court in Karnataka, that was in violation ofthe preva

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