India’s multi-disciplinary mining industry body, Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), has ordered dedicated sustainable development units (SDUs) at each mine or leasehold area to implement the government’s Sustainable Development Framework (SDF) though the newly instituted ‘star rating of mines’.
Setting down the goals of SDUs in a background paper on the implementation of the ‘star rating of mines’, IBM said that each SDU would be responsible for periodic reviews of mine operations, set up conflict management mechanisms, training and sensitisation of miners and local stakeholders.
