Coal Licences

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  Government Launches India's 1st Exploration License Auction For Critical Minerals

  Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday launched nation's first-ever auction of Exploration Licences (ELs) for 13 exploration blocks for critical minerals.

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  Supreme Court "Lost Its Way" While Cancelling Coal Block, 2G Licences: Mukul Rohatgi

  The Supreme Court "lost its way" while cancelling all allocations of coal blocks, 2G spectrum licences and iron ore mining and "its zeal to protect the environment" dealt a serious blow to the country's economy, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said on Saturday.

• Supreme Court to Decide Fate of 218 Coal Blocks Today

  The fate of 218 coal blocks, which was allocated to companies illegally by the Centre, will be decided by the Supreme Court today.

• Coal scam: Centre to cancel 41 coal block allocations, asks companies to respond

  The government today told the Supreme Court that it will cancel 41 coal block allocations made between 1993 and 2009 but yet to take off. The Supreme Court is hearing the case linked to violations in the grant of coal mining licences without bidding, at a huge cost to the government.

• Huge investment no ground for not cancelling coal allocation: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court today said huge investments made by companies in coal blocks without getting clearance cannot be a ground for not cancelling licences and asked the Centre to respond whether it intends to de-allocate such allocations.

• Cabinet approves first ever coal block auction policy for private firms: full text

  The cabinet has approved auction of coal blocks to private companies, enabling the government to allot coal mining licences through competitive bidding for the first time. Here is the press release issued by the coal ministry on the methodology of allocation:

• Coal scam: CBI files case against company that got mining licence in Chhattisgarh

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating the coal scam has filed a case against a company for allegedly misrepresenting facts to get a mining licence in Chhattisgarh.

• Coal-gate: Inter-ministerial group advises cancellation of three more coal blocks

  The inter-ministerial group on coal blocks has advised the cancellation of three more coal blocks today. The group, looking into allegations that the government implemented a coal policy that provided windfall benefits to private players and cost the country thousands of crores, recommended that the licences of Gourangdih ABC Coal Block, Rawanwara ...

• Chidambaram on coal controversy: Highlights

  An Inter-Ministerial Group, with an expanded mandate to review the status of 90 coal blocks allotted since 1993 to private firms, is currently meeting. Sources say the panel might recommend that licences for about 60 of these blocks be cancelled as the firms they were allotted to have failed to develop them. Sources say such a move is also expected...

• Could cancellation of coal licences help Parliament get back to work?

  The coal scandal has dominated this session of Parliament - not through discussion or debate, but by becoming the point of paralysis that has led to virtually no business being transacted in either House. Disruptions by the BJP continued today and resulted in both houses of Parliament being adjourned for the day. The Monsoon Session concludes on Sa...

• Coal scandal: 60 coal blocks could be de-allocated, some granted by NDA

  With just a week left of this Parliament session, the government is keen to end the paralysis caused by the "coal-gate" scandal. The Opposition has said that it will only allow discussion and debate in Parliament if the government agrees to cancel the allocation of 142 coal fields, and commissions a judicial inquiry to dissect how those licences we...

• Coal scandal: Final report by inter-ministerial group by September 10

  An Inter-Ministerial Group, with an expanded mandate to review the status of 90 coal blocks allotted since 1993 to private firms, met today in New Delhi. Sources say the panel might recommend that licences for about 60 of these blocks be cancelled as the firms they were allotted to have failed to develop them. Sources say allottees of these blocks ...

• Coal scandal: 60 coal blocks up for review today, licences at stake

  An Inter-Ministerial Group is currently meeting to review the status of 60 coal blocks which both public and private firms failed to develop within a stipulated time-frame.

• Coal licences to be scrapped for non-performance, say sources: 10 big developments

  As the controversy over 'Coal-gate' heats up, sources have told NDTV that the licences for more than 50 coal blocks have been reviewed, and several of these could soon be cancelled. The companies who got these licences have allegedly failed to live upto their end of the deal.