1.
The mining and mineral production interests in India were earlier represented by regional associations of mine
operators and individual lease holders.
In 1966, the individual mine operators and associations
established an all-India
federation a non-profit corporate body under the Companies Act,
1956 to promote the interests of mining, mineral processing, metal making and other mineral-based industries and to attend to the
problems faced by them in lease grants,
renewals, tenures, production, taxation,
trade, exports, labour, etc. The Federation of Indian Mineral Industries
(FIMI), which came into existence with a small membership of about 40 federating associations and individual units, is now a
350-member body. FIMI envelopes in its
fold mining, mineral processing, metal making, cement and other mineral-derived
industries as well as granite, stone, marble and slate industries private, joint
and public sectors of the country.
It represents the entire non-fuel mining and mineral processing
activities of the nation.
2.
FIMI, while pleading for the promotion of these industries, interfaces with
government, trade and industry bodies, educational and R&D institutions
etc.
on legal, tenurial, fiscal, regulatory, forests and environmental
all matters connected with the functioning of this sector on a continuing
basis.
3.
During the past 37 years of its existence, FIMI has organised
a number of international/national seminars, conferences, workshops to
highlight the problems, policies and perspectives of the resource (mineral)
based industries.
4.
FIMI imbued with the philosophy that individual initiative, enterprise and
efforts are the foundation of a nations progress and are
the means for the community to precipitate in a co-operative and complementary
functioning, has striven for finding the common ground and consensus in all its
interfacing activities with government, avoiding confrontational and
conflicting facets. As a consequence, FIMI has emerged as an institution with
undoubted objectivity and unsullied credibility whose views are sought by the
Government of India and public institutions with confidence and faith for
promoting the interests of the nation and industry public and private
sectors. FIMI is now seeking to promote for mineral, mineral derived processing
and metallurgical sector, in an investor friendly environment.
5.
Being essentially a promotional body, FIMI's
main objective is to
establish a vibrant,
environmentally benign mineral industry (explorative,
extractive and processing
activities related to minerals) that meets the mineral needs of the nation from the existing resource endowment, import the mineral
and metals that are scarce or
absent, and export the surplus
minerals and metals that
have an external market
without prejudice to domestic needs.
Nevertheless, while promoting mining and mineral-based industries, through
private initiative, effort and enterprise, FIMI has eschewed all sectarian,
confrontational and conflict-creating approaches and is actively engaged in all
its interfacing activities in pursuing a cohesive, complementary and
co-operative functioning of all labour, capital,
Government to create a wealth and prosperity generating activity for the
greatest national benefit. FIMI can confidently proclaim that it has succeeded
to a large extent in its efforts, as Government, mine operators and labour repose faith and confidence in the objectivity of
FIMI.
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CURRENT ACTIVITIES AND
PROGRAMMES
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6.
The current activities have resulted in making deregulation and liberalisation of mineral production and processing
industry a ground reality. FIMI has found that while the Government of India
has liberalised the policies,
dismantled regulatory regimes, these policies are yet to percolate to the State
level and to other implementing agencies. It is to be noted that while federal
Government is a development facilitating and regulatory body, the Constitution
of India provides that all minerals, fuels etc. are the property of individual
States. Hence it is imperative that policies that emanate from Government of India should not only percolate to State level, but are also
implemented in the sprit in which the pronouncements are made. Towards this
end, FIMI is persuading official implementing agencies to bring out the
necessary changes in procedures to avoid delays in order to harmonise
the policy and practice.
FEDERATION OF INDIAN MINERAL
INDUSTRIES
301, Bakshi House, 40-41, Nehru Place, New Delhi 110 019 (India)
Tel: (011) 26410786, 26410078, 26214049; Fax: (011)
26217004
E-mail:fimi@fedmin.com;
fedmin@nda.vsnl.net.in
Website:
www.fedmin.com
