NEW DELHI: The government will begin auctioning coal blocks for commercial mining from June 18, a move that will finally free the sector from government controls, unlock its potential to substitute imports and fuel growth.
\n\u201cWe are launching first-ever commercial coal auctions in country on 18 th June. Event will be graced by PM @NarendraModiji. It is his vision and guidance to make #AatmanirbharBharat in coal\u2026\u201d coal and mines minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted on Thursday.
\nWe are launching first-ever commercial coal auctions in country on 18th June. Event will be graced by PM\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/OLoj13xXHR
\n\u2014 Pralhad Joshi (@JoshiPralhad) 1591858945000
\nAnnouncing the decision to open up coal mining to private sector without end-use restrictions as part of the Rs 20 lakh-crore economic stimulus on May 16, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said 50 coal mines would be auctioned \u201cimmediately\u201d. But reports suggest the auction could begin with roughly 40 blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The government will begin auctioning coal blocks for commercial mining from June 18, a move that will finally free the sector from government controls, unlock its potential to substitute imports and fuel growth. \u201cWe are launching first-ever commercial coal auctions in country on 18 th June. Event will be graced by PM @NarendraModiji. It is his vision and guidance to make #AatmanirbharBharat in coal\u2026\u201d coal and mines minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted on Thursday. We are launching first-ever commercial coal auctions in country on 18th June. Event will be graced by PM\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/OLoj13xXHR \u2014 Pralhad Joshi (@JoshiPralhad) 1591858945000 Announcing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357083","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}