Soon after claiming “chaos in the Indian mining industry”, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revive growth and job creation potential in the sector and reverse the present falling employment in mining. “With government support and much needed reforms, the mining sector has the potential to create five-million direct jobs if the country’s rich mineral resources are sensibly explored and used for production for domestic consumption and import substitution, saving foreign exchange,” FIMI secretary general R K Sharma said in a communication to the Prime Minister.
