100 blocks to be auctioned in 2017 - 2018: Arun Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Mines (Full Speech)




100 mining blocks will be auctioned by the government in the year 2017-2018, stated the Secretary, Ministry of Mines- Arun Kumar. He was speaking at the India Mining Summit 2017. The pace of auctions too needs to be hastened, he added.





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