India's mining sector moving beyond compliance-led approach to sustainability: Report

The environmental, social, and governance ESG regulations are evolving from voluntary commitments to mandatory, data-driven compliance, led by Sebis Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting BRSR framework for the top 1,000 listed companies, said the Mining 5.0-Emerging mining technologies by 2030 report by Deloitte and the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ICC.

India's mining sector is transitioning from sustainability related compliance to adopting data-driven model focused on long-term performance, a report said on Friday. The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations are evolving from voluntary commitments to mandatory, data-driven compliance, led by Sebi's Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) framework for the top 1,000 listed companies, said the 'Mining 5.0-Emerging mining technologies by 2030' report by Deloitte and the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICC). It also highlights requirements such as BRSR core disclosures, mandatory assurance for leading entities and digital compliance, which are accelerating the focus on carbon reduction, waste management, governance transparency and social accountability, the report added. According to the Deloitte-ICC report, the next opportunity for India is not to deploy additional point technologies, but to orchestrate existing capabilities into integrated operating systems. Scale is achieved when data, analytics, AI and governance are aligned across the value chain, enabling faster decisions, reduced variability and system-level performance rather than isolated efficiency gains, it said. The report further outlined that, given India's diverse and connectivity-constrained mining landscape, cloud-edge hybrid architectures are essential. Edge systems can support low latency and safety-critical decisions, while cloud platforms enable enterprise analytics and integration with multi-mine intelligence.