New Delhi: Supreme Court Lifts Ban on Karnataka Iron Ore Exports
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday said that the ban on the export and transportation of iron ore in Karnataka will be revoked from April 20, 2011.
The apex court bench of Justice R.V. Ravindran and Justice A.K. Pattnaik passed the interim order after it was told that the rules for regulating iron ore mining and transportation have been notified April 1, 2011.
The court gave the Karnataka government 15 days that it had sought to put in place the infrastructure to enforce the new rules to prevent the illegal mining of iron ore and its transportation.
The Karnataka government, by its notifications July 26 and 28 last year, had banned the export of iron ore.