{"id":650548,"date":"2025-10-30T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650548"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:12:43","slug":"coal-ministry-puts-up-41-mines-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-ministry-puts-up-41-mines-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal ministry puts up 41 mines for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The coal ministry on Wednesday put up for auction 41 mines, comprising 20 conventional and 21 underground coal gasification (UCG) mines, pushing for utilisation of deep-seated coal reserves through gassification. It is the first time the government has put up for auction potential UCG mines, aiming to promote cleaner and more diversified uses of coal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Underground coal gassification technique allows for conversion of deep-seated coal to syngas. This results in less pollution, and industries can use this as feedstock, reducing imports of natural gas,&#8221; said coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy. &#8220;Coal gassification will not only provide clean energy to the industry, but also will be a big step for India towards a hydrogen economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The coal ministry on Wednesday put up for auction 41 mines, comprising 20 conventional and 21 underground coal gasification (UCG) mines, pushing for utilisation of deep-seated coal reserves through gassification. It is the first time the government has put up for auction potential UCG mines, aiming to promote cleaner and more diversified uses of coal. &#8220;Underground coal gassification technique allows for conversion of deep-seated coal to syngas. This results in less pollution, and industries can use this as feedstock, reducing imports of natural gas,&#8221; said coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy. &#8220;Coal gassification will not only provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-650548","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\/650548","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}