Centre ties ₹5,175 crore to mine reforms
New Delhi: The finance ministry has firmed up guidelines for states to claim incentives worth ₹5,175 crore for expediting operationalisation of mines, improving mineral production and implementing key governance reforms under the Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) 2026-27.States will need to bring 79 auctioned major mineral and critical mineral blocks into production, equivalent to 10% of the 684 blocks auctioned by states and the Centre until March 31, as pe…

