ILLEGAL MINING : INDIA SUFFERS COLLATERAL DAMAGE AS WELL
In the past seven years, more than 30 million tones of iron ore was illegally exported from the state of Karnataka alone. At a conservative price of $ 150 per tonne, these illegal exports would value a staggering Rs 22,500 crore or more. There is immense `collateral damage’ to the country, it has been estimated that over 1.6 lakh hectares of [...]


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