The Jharkhand government will block coal supply if the central coal mining firms do not clear \u201clegitimate dues\u201d of \u20b91.36 lakh crore owed to the state, chief minister Hemant Soren said.<\/p>\n
His government is committed to ensure the state\u2019s rights are honoured, Soren said in his closing remarks at the budget session of the assembly on Friday. He made public on Saturday his letter to the Union coal ministry, underlining that his consultations with the ministry and Niti Aayog over the issue have failed to yield results.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe central mining PSUs (public sector units) owe the state \u20b91.36 lakh crore. I want to assure the house that it is our right and we will make sure we get it. This amount is only going to increase. If the Centre does not give this to us, we have resolved to snatch it. If our rights are not honoured, we will put barricades around coal resource,\u201d Soren said in the assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Jharkhand government will block coal supply if the central coal mining firms do not clear \u201clegitimate dues\u201d of \u20b91.36 lakh crore owed to the state, chief minister Hemant Soren said. His government is committed to ensure the state\u2019s rights are honoured, Soren said in his closing remarks at the budget session of the assembly on Friday. He made public on Saturday his letter to the Union coal ministry, underlining that his consultations with the ministry and Niti Aayog over the issue have failed to yield results. \u201cThe central mining PSUs (public sector units) owe the state \u20b91.36 lakh crore. […]<\/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":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479541","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=479541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}