Odisha govt allows merchant miners to stash minerals in stock yards

The Odisha government has provisioned for intermediate storage of minerals like iron ore, manganese ore and chromite ore produced by merchant miners. Like end-use industries, the merchant miners have also got permission from the state steel & mines department to stash ore in storage depots or stockyards.

The merchant miners will be granted storage licenses valid is till March 31, 2022. The facility of storage licenses has been provided to the non-captive or merchant miners keeping in view the fact that their lease validity ceases by March 31, 2020. Odisha has 16 operative merchant miners who lease tenure ends by