Processing power key to India's mineral stockpile
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- ✓India is building a strategic stockpile of critical minerals to protect industries from global supply disruptions.
- ✓While reserves help, the government also approved a ₹7,280-crore scheme to manufacture rare-earth magnets.
- ✓Officials said, "access to raw materials does not guarantee access to the industrial inputs that manufacturers actually require."
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- India Economy
India must not only secure the materials its industries need but also the ability to turn those materials into products
What happens when a country has the raw materials its industries need but cannot turn them into the components its factories use? India's proposed strategic stockpile of critical minerals brings this question into focus. The government is preparing a policy to build reserves of minerals needed for electric vehicles, batteries, defence equipment, electronics and energy infrastructure, with the aim of reducing exposure to global supply disruptions.
The logic is sound. A reserve can protect manufacturers when supplies are interrupted. But there is a limit to what stockpiling can achieve. A country can secure the ingredients of industrial production without securing the ability to manufacture the finished product.
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