Govt plans big push to pvt coal mining, underground coal gasification, CBM

The government is planning to give a big push to private sector mining of coal, underground coal gasification and coal bed methane as it spent most of 2019 laying ground for diversification of the coal sector.

“This year (2019) we have been able to lay the ground for diversifying the coal sector… Now in the coming year, we are hopeful of diversifying the mining base of the country and inducting private capital, FDI.

“So we have to work out the terms and introduce private sector mining on very big terms…Coal Bed Methane (CBM), Underground Coal Gasification (UCG), Surface Gasification– in very big terms,” a top official at the coal ministry told PTI.