{"id":654393,"date":"2025-11-29T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654393"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:32:08","slug":"govt-adds-18-private-entities-to-list-of-agencies-authorised-to-explore-coal-lignite-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-adds-18-private-entities-to-list-of-agencies-authorised-to-explore-coal-lignite-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt adds 18 private entities to list of agencies authorised to explore coal, lignite resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Friday said it has expanded the list of agencies authorised to carry out search and exploration of coal and lignite by adding 18 new entities, taking their total number to 45. <\/p>\n<p>Exploration and preparation of a geological report by an authorised prospecting agency is a prerequisite for operationalisation of a coal mine. Until now, a total of 27 entities have been authorised to operate as prospecting agencies. <\/p>\n<p>The addition of new exploration agencies will result in saving of around six months for a mining operator who, until now, has to wait for a report from a prospecting agency about mineral deposits in a particular area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Friday said it has expanded the list of agencies authorised to carry out search and exploration of coal and lignite by adding 18 new entities, taking their total number to 45. Exploration and preparation of a geological report by an authorised prospecting agency is a prerequisite for operationalisation of a coal mine. Until now, a total of 27 entities have been authorised to operate as prospecting agencies. The addition of new exploration agencies will result in saving of around six months for a mining operator who, until now, has to wait for a report from a prospecting [&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-654393","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\/654393","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=654393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}