Govt releases Natural Resource Accounting to track mineral, energy deposits

The asset accounts would help identify alternate economic and energy-based resources, and aid in developing an ecosystem for containing illegal mining

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Karthik Jerome New Delhi
The Government Accounting Standards advisory board (GASAB) has come up with a Natural Resource Accounting (NRA) for tracking and maintaining the natural resources of India. GASAB had prepared templates for the asset accounts for mineral and energy resources which were field-tested and reviewed by the experts in the consultative committee. As on date, all 28 states and one Union Territory (J&K) have prepared the asset accounts for 2020-2021. The asset accounts captured details of 34 major minerals, 58 minor minerals and all four fossil fuels. A report of the asset accounts will be shortly published and an electronic dashboard with information will be hosted in the web.

GASAB has developed standard operating procedures to ensure automated collection and compilation of

First Published: Jul 15 2022 | 10:24 PM IST

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