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Import-dependentFunderStockpilerProducer

Supply-chain position

Import-dependent for most processed critical minerals and building a state-led programme across the value chain. Instruments combine exploration funding, a fast-track approval route for critical-mineral mining projects, overseas asset acquisition through public-sector undertakings, customs-duty removal on most critical minerals, and a planned domestic stockpile.

Framing posture

Frames policy as self-reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat) and value-chain resilience, citing the role of critical minerals in high-tech industries, clean energy and defence. Published framing to date names no foreign state.

Framing anchors (1)

How this actor justifies its policy, in its own words.

On: National Critical Mineral Mission →

Framing anchorEconomic securitySupply-chain resilience

There is a need to establish an effective framework for India's self-reliance in the critical mineral sector.

Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Mines, Government of IndiaPrimary sourceEnglish original

From the Press Information Bureau release on the Cabinet approval, verbatim. The surrounding text places the Mission within the Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) initiative and cites the indispensable role of critical minerals in high-tech industries, clean energy and defence. No foreign state is named anywhere in the release.