The government will put 10 more coal mines up for auction in the third phase in next month. The Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal replying to query in the parliament has said that the government has issued an order for auction of 10 coal mines with 858.19 million tonnes of geological reserves and 356.26 million tonnes of extractable reserves in the third tranche.
These 10 coal mines are earmarked for the non regulated sector - cement, iron and steel, captive power plants and the e-auction of these mines is proposed to be held from August 11-17, 2015, the process of allocation is scheduled to be completed by September 2015. Of the 10 blocks, most have requisite approvals. Five of these blocks were offered to private companies in the first two rounds of auction, but were later withdrawn as they received less than three bids. The government had issued the tenders inviting technical and financial bids for the mines from June 8 and the last date for submission of the documents was July 21.
The government has so far auctioned 67 coal blocks in two tranches to private companies and garnered over Rs 4 lakh crore. Tweaking the rules of auction - two phases of which saw 40 coal mines being awarded, the government has ruled out multiple bids. The Supreme Court had cancelled allocation of 204 coal mines to companies without auction terming the same as arbitrary and illegal.
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