Reported by Ashish Bhargava,Sunil Prabhu, Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Thursday July 25, 2024, New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld states' right to levy royalty on mineral-bearing land, reasoning they had competence and power to do so; this will benefit mineral-rich states like Odisha, Jharkhand, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh.