{"id":954,"date":"2022-07-28T05:35:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/?p=954"},"modified":"2022-07-28T05:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T05:36:35","slug":"pralhad-joshi-to-rs-8-psus-have-surrendered-11-coal-mines-under-new-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/28\/pralhad-joshi-to-rs-8-psus-have-surrendered-11-coal-mines-under-new-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pralhad Joshi to RS: 8 PSUs have surrendered 11 coal mines under new policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pralhad Joshi to RS: 8 PSUs have surrendered 11 coal mines under the new policy<\/h1>\n<p><em>Eight PSUs have submitted requests to surrender 11 non-operational coal mines under an amnesty scheme, Union Minister for Coal Pralhad Joshi has told the Rajya Sabha<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The government has received requests for the surrender of 11 coal mines allotted to three Central PSUs and five state PSUs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>As of December 2021, 45 out of the 73 mines allotted to PSUs remained non-operational<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'PT Serif','serif'; color: #222222;\">New Delhi:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'PT Serif','serif'; color: #222222;\">\u00a0Eight PSUs have submitted requests to surrender 11 non-operational coal mines under an amnesty scheme, Union Minister for Coal Pralhad Joshi told the Rajya Sabha on Monday. In a written response to a question raised in the House, Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said that till date, the government has received requests for surrender of 11 coal blocks allotted to three Central PSUs and five state PSUs following the policy being issued. \u201cMinistry of Coal has issued an amnesty scheme in May 2022 granting one-time window to allottee government companies to surrender non-operational coal mines without penalty,\u201d Joshi explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'PT Serif','serif'; color: #222222;\">The government had earlier allowed PSUs to surrender non-operational coal mines without giving any reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coal mines surrendered by PSUs to be auctioned<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The government had said that the move would release several coal mines which the PSU allottees were not in a position to develop or were disinterested in and could be auctioned as per the auction policy.<\/p>\n<p>It had granted three months\u2019 time to the allottee government companies to surrender the coal mines from the date of publication of the approved surrender policy.<\/p>\n<p>As of December 2021, 45 out of the 73 mines allotted to PSUs remained non-operational.<\/p>\n<p>The delays were due to reasons beyond the control of allottees, for example, law and order issues, enhancement in the area of forest from what was declared earlier, resistance of land-holders against land acquisition, and geological surprises in terms of availability of coal resources.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/psuwatch.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pralhad Joshi to RS: 8 PSUs have surrendered 11 coal mines under the new policy Eight PSUs have submitted requests to surrender 11 non-operational coal mines under an amnesty scheme, Union Minister for Coal Pralhad Joshi has told the Rajya Sabha The government has received requests for the surrender of 11 coal mines allotted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctioned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coalgasifiers.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}