{"id":288271,"date":"2019-08-22T05:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=288271"},"modified":"2019-08-22T05:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T05:27:51","slug":"govt-to-amend-mmdr-act-to-expedite-exploration-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-amend-mmdr-act-to-expedite-exploration-of-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to amend MMDR Act to expedite exploration of coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The Centre is in the process of bringing an amendment to the MMDR Act to do away with the need of the state governments&#8217; seeking prior approval for giving out mining leases, Coal Secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri said here on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>A bill for bringing the amendment to the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act will be introduced in the next session of Parliament, he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drafting of the bill for amendment of the MMDR Act is in the process and will be introduced in the next session of Parliament,&#8221; Chaudhuri said at a stakeholders&#8217; consultation organised by the coal ministry and FICCI here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The Centre is in the process of bringing an amendment to the MMDR Act to do away with the need of the state governments&#8217; seeking prior approval for giving out mining leases, Coal Secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri said here on Wednesday. A bill for bringing the amendment to the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act will be introduced in the next session of Parliament, he said. &#8220;The drafting of the bill for amendment of the MMDR Act is in the process and will be introduced in the next session of Parliament,&#8221; Chaudhuri said at a stakeholders&#8217; consultation organised by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}