Making rare earths more common

India is a rank outsider when it comes to owning and producing strategic mineral and metal resources. In fact, it has not even made an honest start. Lack of access to best-technology practices due to restrictive regimes, coupled with the larger problem of a protectionist environment that did not incentivise innovation, meant that critical strategic industries — nuclear, space, defence and communications — depended on high-technology imports which got progressively more difficult for largely non-economic reasons.

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