{"id":22797,"date":"2026-04-13T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22797"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:49:03","slug":"khanij-bidesh-india-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/khanij-bidesh-india-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State-owned Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL) recently received environmental clearance from the Argentine govt for deep exploration of five brine lithium blocks in the South American country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>joint venture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> company of <\/span><b>three Central Public Sector Enterprises,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> namely, <\/span><b>National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><b> Hindustan Copper Ltd. (HCL),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mineral Exploration and Consultancy Ltd. (MECL)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the ratio of <\/span><b>40:30:30.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>incorporated <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on 08.08.<\/span><b>2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the Companies Act 2013, with an <\/span><b>objective <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to <\/span><b>identify, explore, and acquire overseas mineral deposits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; <\/span><b>bring strategic minerals into India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is under the aegis of the <\/span><b>Ministry of Mines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company is <\/span><b>currently focusing on<\/b> <b>two <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prime critical and <\/span><b>strategic minerals, i.e., Lithium and Cobalt, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and significant <\/span><b>projects are underway in <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a>, Australia, and Chile.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorized capital of the Company is Rs. 500 crore, and paid-up capital is Rs. 100 crore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amongst the three promoters, <\/span><b>NALCO <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><b>one of the largest integrated primary producers of aluminum in Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>HCL <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is I<\/span><b>ndia\u2019s only vertically integrated copper producer, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whereas <\/span><b>MECL <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span><b> one of the largest mineral exploration agencies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The registered office of KABIL is situated in New Delhi and managed by the lead partner NALCO.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/khanij-bidesh-gets-environmental-clearance-from-argentine-govt-for-deep-exploration-of-five-lithium\/articleshow\/130177285.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL) was incorporated on 08.08.2019 under the Companies Act 2013, with an objective to identify, explore, and acquire overseas mineral deposits &#038; bring strategic minerals into India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":98074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6831,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-22797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-khanij-bidesh-india-limited","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98095,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22797\/revisions\/98095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}