India: 35 Coal Blocks Have Gone into Production

The coal blocks have been allocated for captive mining to eligible private sector companies and specified end-use projects (EUPs) to be set up as well as existing ones viz. generation of power, production of iron & steel, production of cement, washing of coal obtained from a mine and production of syn-gas through coal gasification (underground and surface) and coal liquefication, and some of the public sector companies have also been allocated coal blocks without any restriction of specified EUPs, in pursuance of provisions of the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal, Shri Pratik PrakashBapu Patil in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today. 

As on date 178 coal blocks stand allocated. Out of these, 35 coal blocks have gone into production.