India steel minister proposes KIOCL merger with NMDC
NEW DELHI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - India has proposed for a
merger of state-owned miners KIOCL KIOC.NS and NMDC NMDC.NS ,
federal steel minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Friday.
KIOCL, which also produces iron ore pellets, is "in critical
condition," Kumaraswamy added.
(Reporting by Neha Arora in New Delhi and Hritam Mukherjee in
Bengaluru; Editing by Eileen Soreng)
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