On 23 December, Mines Secretary V.L. Kantha Rao announced India's plans to launch the Critical Mineral Mission (CMM) in 2025, bringing together multiple ministries, industries, scientists, and academia in a coordinated effort to secure minerals with ever-growing applications. The mandate of the CMM, first proposed during Finance Minister Sitharaman's Union Budget 2024-2025 speech, would include domestic production, recycling, and overseas acquisition of critical minerals, besides technology development, a skilled workforce, an extended producer responsibility framework, and a financing mechanism.
CMM's directives are reflective of India's aspirations of securing domestic supply chains to mitigate strategic vulnerabilities while also leveraging foreign reserves, technology, and capital vis-à-vis trusted bilateral and multilateral partnerships.
While resource-rich countries like Argentina and Australia, among others, have often been discussed vis-à-vis India's critical mineral diplomacy, one country, albeit not minerals-lush, yet potentially key to India's CMM is the US—largely missing from the discourse.
This story is from the January 29, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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