Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has offered a total of 20 closed/discontinued coal mines for auction to the private sector in order to bring them back into operation. These mines are spread over subsidiaries ECL, BCCL, CCL, SECL and WCL and are expected to be leased out on a mine-developer-operator model. Auctions would be carried out on revenue sharing mechanism similar to sale of coal blocks under commercial mining.
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