Leader of the Opposition and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad says farmers have been camping for more than two months and the issue needs to be discussed

Speaking at the agreement signing ceremony for commercial coal mining and launch of single-window clearance system, he said commercial coal mining has been made a part of the system now

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The auction of blocks for commercial mining has opened India's coal sector to private players

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh also offered prayers during the ceremony

This is the second all-party meeting called by the government on coronavirus, which has affected over 94 lakh people across India, since the beginning of the pandemic.

The government is looking into the feedback it has received on the proposed reforms and stressed that the Centre wishes to auction at least 500 mineral blocks in the coming two to three years, Pralhad Joshi said

Opposition members, including Shashi Tharoor of the Congress and Saugata Roy of the Trinamool Congress, opposed the bill, accusing the Centre of encroaching on the rights of states

The coal behemoth said that 18 mining projects with a total rated capacity of 132.04 million tonnes per annum and a total investment of Rs 21,244.55 crores were approved by the board of CIL and its arms during 2019-20

Share price of Coal India gained 2.96% intra day to Rs 137.45 compared to the previous close of Rs 133.50  on BSE

Mining sector in the country contributed Rs 4 lakh crore to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last year and the sector employs 1.1 crore people directly and another 5.5 crore people are indirectly dependent on the sector

India had imported 19.61MT of coal in July 2019, according to a provisional compilation, by mjunction services limited, based on monitoring of vessels' positions and data received from shipping companies

CIL despatched 5.78 lakh tonnes on the first day of strike. This is around 42 per cent of the normal off-take of 14 LTs/day, as per referred calculation

Five trade unions, including RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), working in Coal India Ltd (CIL) went on a three-day strike from Thursday to protest the decision of the government to start commercial coal mining

\"Allowing private sector in commercial coal mining is unlocking resources of a nation with the world's fourth-largest reserves,\" he pointed out.

Lambasting past policies of keeping the sector closed, PM Modi pointed out that India should be world's biggest coal exporter considering size of reserves

Such an exchange would turn the coal sector into an open market with no barriers to free-market activity

Union minister Pralhad Joshi said the Coal India Ltd (CIL) has been given the specific target of one billion tonnes of production by 2023-24 and for that 60 new coal blocks have been allotted to it

\"It (WCL) will have Rs 5,300 crore capital investment. I would request that it should look into inducting more local people even if norms are to be relaxed as there has been several disputed matters due to small issues,\" the minister said