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Ministers lock horns over mining rights

Calcutta Telegraph | July 7, 2011 | 6:34 am Energy Asia Coal

Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal is sticking to his guns in his ministrys conflict with environment minister Jairam Ramesh, demanding that mining be allowed in all areas not described as dense forest and not considered ecologically fragile. We are saying