New Delhi, March 3 -- Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal on Tuesday suggested that India needs to declare mining of natural resources as a national priority, amidst escalated tensions and uncertainties in resource-rich West Asia.

A major geopolitical shock in a resource-rich region, like the ongoing conflict in Iran, makes India vulnerable because of its huge import dependence on underground natural resources, the Vedanta Group Chairman posted on X.

"We need to immediately declare this sector a national priority, cut cumbersome processes and facilitate a rapid increase in domestic production. We have such a progressive government that this can happen. Some risk has to be taken, and we should take it," he wrote on X.

Declaring it as a ...