Harish Rao Takes Charge Of Mines To Speed Up SAIL & NSL Projects

A day after the Australian firm NSL Consolidated Ltd declared an immediate investment of Rs. 1000 Cr and an additional staggered investment of Rs 1500 Cr, KCR handed the mines & geology portfolio to the Irrigation minister Harish Rao. Known to be a hard-worker himself and a hard taskmaster, Harish Rao is expected to ground the declared projects as well as aggressively pursue and start the SAIL steel project in Bayyaram, which SAIL has already agreed to. CM KCR has earlier announced an ambitious single-window clearance program for prospective investors and promised to cut the red tape. He reiterated that the system would be ‘one of it’s kind’ in this country, at the ground-breaking ceremony of the TATA aerospace project. Handing charge to Harish Rao is expected to spur activity of the mining front. Telangana government is yet to come up with a broad policy over mining in the state, which is rich with minerals. 

On CM’s letter asking for the assignment of the portfolio, the Governor issued the order assigning the Mines and Geology portfolio to Harish Rao.