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Ministry of Coal
Who’s afraid of auctioning coal?
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2012
THE Union ministries of coal and mines seem to have geared into action after a draft report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on allotment of coal blocks without auction was leaked to the media.
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On shaky ground
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2009
Alok Kumar Gupta
Nearly half a million people living in and around the Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand have to be shifted to control underground fires. But the government has no sound strategy for their rehabilitation and the people have no trust in the government
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Coal prices set to change
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2012
THE system of grading coal in India will change from January 1 so that it complies with the global standards. The switch, announced by the Union Ministry of Coal, will hit the power sector hard.
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Mahan at all costs
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2011
WHEN Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan went on an “indefinite” fast in February to protest the Centre’s “continued discrimination” against the state, one of his grudges was the delay in the allocation of a coal block to a joint venture of two companies that has invested thousands of crores of rupees in setting up industries in the backward region.
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Auto yes to coal
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2011
Eight months ago the Centre constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to look into the increasing perception that delay in acquiring forest clearance was hurting the country’s coal and power production.
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Environment ministry firm on 'no-go' zones
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
The Union ministry of environment and forests has reiterated its stand against mining in coal fields demarcated 'no-go' zones. In response to the coal ministry's advice to allow mining in all coal-bearing areas, the environment ministry said it will be against the letter and spirit of the Forest Conservation Act.
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Let forests be mined: coal ministry
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2010
CHOOSING economic growth over protection of rich forests, the ministry of coal has written to the Cabinet secretary against demarcation of coal-bearing mines as “go” and “no-go” zones. In June, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) had set rich forests as out of bounds for mining. As a preliminary exercise, the environment and coal ministries identified 35 per cent area of nine coalfields as no-go zones.
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