Tag: Gemstone

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has granted leases of 18 mines for a period of 50 years including a bauxite mining lease to State-owned Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC). The state government has already received Rs 500 crore from these concerned mines as stamp duty and in future it will receive more revenue in way of mining […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is considering promulgation of a policy to bring the unorganised gemstone mining sector in the State under government regulation and earn revenue to the tune of Rs 50-60 crore per annum. Steel and Minses minister Prafulla Mallick informed this to media on the sidelines of a workshop on gemstone here on […]