{"id":657118,"date":"2025-12-27T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657118"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:19:11","slug":"coal-policy-change-govt-eases-approval-process-for-opening-coal-lignite-mines-boards-get-more-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-policy-change-govt-eases-approval-process-for-opening-coal-lignite-mines-boards-get-more-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal policy change: Govt eases approval process for opening coal, lignite mines; boards get more authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has amended rules to streamline approvals for opening coal and lignite mines, a move aimed at cutting procedural delays and speeding up mine operationalisation while retaining regulatory oversight, PTI reported .<\/p>\n<p>Under the earlier framework, Rule 9 of the Colliery Control Rules, 2004 required mine owners to obtain prior approval from the Coal Controller\u2019s Organisation (CCO) to open a coal or lignite mine, as well as individual seams or sections of seams. Permission from the CCO was also mandatory to restart operations if a mine remained closed for 180 days or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has amended rules to streamline approvals for opening coal and lignite mines, a move aimed at cutting procedural delays and speeding up mine operationalisation while retaining regulatory oversight, PTI reported . Under the earlier framework, Rule 9 of the Colliery Control Rules, 2004 required mine owners to obtain prior approval from the Coal Controller\u2019s Organisation (CCO) to open a coal or lignite mine, as well as individual seams or sections of seams. Permission from the CCO was also mandatory to restart operations if a mine remained closed for 180 days or more.<\/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-657118","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\/657118","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=657118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}