Critical Minerals & Rare Earths Strategy

Rare earths and other critical minerals are the choke points of the clean-energy and defence economy - and India imports most of them, above all from China. Since 2024 New Delhi has assembled a layered answer: the 34,300-crore-rupee National Critical Mineral Mission for the whole chain from exploration to recycling, a 7,280-crore-rupee scheme to build rare-earth magnet capacity at home, dedicated mining corridors announced in Budget 2026-27, overseas buying through the state venture KABIL, and a Quad framework agreed in New Delhi in 2026 to pool critical-mineral supply chains among friendly economies. This card ties those pieces into one strategy.