Who’s afraid of auctioning coal?
Centre continues to allocate coal blocks despite calls for competitive bidding
Cabinet dilutes new mining bill
Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people
Auto yes to coal
High powered panel recommends freeing coal blocks in forests
Mining Bill gives people their due
It ensures that mine owners share profit with people
Jindal pays for flouting law
Constructs Chhattisgarh plant without clearance
The inviolate plot
New parameters for identifying pristine forests may make them more vulnerable
Mining for people
New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people
A yatra to highlight looting of land
Companies will pay a pittance as compensation to extract coal in Hazaribagh
Coal blocks on offer
Under new policy, Centre offers 17 blocks with total reserve of 8.5 billion tonnes to state-run firms
Lobbying begins
Just before mining bill is tabled in Parliament, industry calls profit-sharing a burden. Government is unsure
India’s Minamata
Singrauli, the powerhouse of India with massive coal reserves and many thermal power plants, should have been prosperous. But it is poor and …
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