Raise coal royalty to 20%, share 60% energy cess

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday urged Union Coal Minister Piyush Goyal to consider the final recommendation of the Study Group on coal royalty revision and increase the royalty from present 14 per cent to 20 per cent soon.

“It is disheartening to learn from youth letter that final recommendation of the Study Group on coal royalty revision, submitted before the Union Government, is still under consideration. It is once again requested that the Central Government consider the long pending claim of the State Government to revise the rate of royalty from present 14 per cent to 20 per cent,” Patanik wrote to Goyal.