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Article highlights:
- Minister Ebrahim Patel said the draft scrap metal policy’s proposal to eventually ban cash sales in scrap would allow the government to trace transactions.
- He said introducing the draft policy’s measures would preserve the legitimate industry and make it harder for syndicates to profit from stolen scrap metal.
- Members of Parliament maintained that the theft of scrap metal was better left to law enforcement than trade policy to resolve.
