A committee of Parliament for the Ministry of Steel suggested conducting research and development on manganese for electric vehicles batteries. India is shifting its dependency from petrol and diesel to electric vehicles by 2030. The meeting was held in the presence of Steel Minister RCP Singh. The committee discussed the issue of “Development of manganese ore industry in India”.
The Ministry said, “Members of the (consultative) committee suggested for exploration and survey of minerals in Jharkhand, Odisha and Karnataka and that a Research & Development team be constituted to work out the possibility of usage of manganese in E-vehicles batteries.”
“Singh directed public sector undertakings under the Steel Ministry to take up the issue of manganese ore exploration with state Governments and to explore possibilities of new manganese bearing areas in India to boost the domestic production of manganese ore as per National Steel Policy, 2017 which will help in achieving the objective of “Atma Nirbhar Bharat”,” the statement added.
Recently, A parliamentary panel has suggested the government work together for attaining self-dependency in producing Lithium-ion batteries to have different locations for producing batteries other than China. The panel said that there is a lack of infrastructure for electric vehicles.
