{"id":382492,"date":"2020-11-05T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382492"},"modified":"2020-11-05T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:02:42","slug":"sc-threatens-to-stop-e-auction-of-coal-blocks-for-commercial-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-threatens-to-stop-e-auction-of-coal-blocks-for-commercial-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"SC threatens to stop e-auction of coal blocks for commercial mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday threatened to stop e-auction of coal blocks for commercial mining in several states, a decision it said threw open eco-sensitive forest areas to mining, but stopped short of interfering with the process to allow the centre a last chance to defend its claim that the impact of allowing commercial exploitation of such mines would be minimal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to ensure that forests are not destroyed during your mining,&#8221; a three-judge bench led by CJI SA Bobde told Attorney General KK Venugopal, who opposed any court interference with the auction process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday threatened to stop e-auction of coal blocks for commercial mining in several states, a decision it said threw open eco-sensitive forest areas to mining, but stopped short of interfering with the process to allow the centre a last chance to defend its claim that the impact of allowing commercial exploitation of such mines would be minimal. &#8220;We want to ensure that forests are not destroyed during your mining,&#8221; a three-judge bench led by CJI SA Bobde told Attorney General KK Venugopal, who opposed any court interference with the auction process.<\/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-382492","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\/382492","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=382492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}