The proposed amendments to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, pose a serious threat to national security and the reforms will destroy public sector companies, N.K. Premachandran, MP, said at a press meet here on Friday.
“The proposal to remove some names from the list of atomic minerals while empowering the Centre to give sanction for mining certain critical minerals is an encroachment on the powers vested with the States under List 2 of the Seventh Schedule. Through this, the Union government is usurping the power of the State governments to issue mining permits,” he said.
