Government has excluded three coal mines situated in Tamil Nadu’s protected agricultural zone, from auction, after state’s chief minister M.K. Stalin had urged the Centre to do so.
Stalin had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 4 to exclude three coal/lignite mining blocks located in the state’s Cauvery delta region from the proposed coal block auction by the Centre.
The development, however, took a political twist after union Coal and Mines minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted on Friday that the decision was taken as the Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai had requested him to do so.
