Paradip Port Trust (PPT) is awaiting a positive response on its request to waive license norms for storing imported coal at its warehouse. The port is mandated to secure a storage licence and a transport license for all mineral transactions under the Odisha Mineral (Prevention of Theft, Smuggling and Illegal mining and Regulation of Possession, Storage and Transportation) Rules, 2007.
The norm is intended to check unauthorised use of the stateÂ’s natural resources. The time-consuming and unneces
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Paradip Port Trust, which has not had a regular Chairman since then Chairman GJ Rao left in April, has got a new boss. SS Mishra, who was Member (Traffic) of the Inland Waterways Authority of India, has taken over as the Chairman of the port. An officer of the 1986 batch of the Indian Railway Traffic Servi

