The Supreme Court Thursday asked the Centre to prepare a Management Plan for Sustainable Mining (MPSM) “for the entire Aravalis” and barred the grant of new mining licences in the region before it is finalised.

“We…direct the MoEF&CC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) to prepare a MPSM through ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education) for the entire Aravalis, i.e., understood as the continuous geological ridge extending from Gujarat to Delhi on the lines of the MPSM for Saranda,” a bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria ordered.

The bench said that “it may not be in the interest of ecology and environment if further mining activities are permitted to be carried out without a body of experts… examining th

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