India, June 23 -- The Union government is set to roll out a policy to develop a domestic processing value chain for battery minerals within the next three months, as India seeks to reduce its dependence on imported critical minerals and strengthen domestic manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs), battery storage systems and clean energy technologies.

Speaking at a Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) Conference on India's Critical Minerals Recycling Landscape on June 23, Mines Secretary Piyush Goyal said the Union Ministry of Mines is in the final stages of designing a scheme to support battery mineral processing.

"We are now very close to finalising a scheme for the processing value chain for battery minerals," Goyal said, a...