The Indian mining industry has squarely blamed the country’s present mining policy and adoption of mandatory auction for allocation of mineral assets as the cause of the country not featuring in Fraser Institute’s global survey gauging investment attractiveness.
“The current mining policy has put India out of the attractive destination for investment in mining,” Secretary General, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) R K Sharma said this week.
“At one time, almost all junior and senior mining companies in the world were in India following the 1999 amendments to the Mines, Minerals Development and Regulation Act (MMDRA) 1957. Today following amendments to MMDRA in 2015, these companies have moved out of India because of the auction policy adopted in the country since January 2015,” Sharma said.