Give details of 14 projects awaiting clearances: Coal Ministry to Central Coalfields Ltd.

The Coal Ministry has asked Central Coalfields Ltd., a CIL subsidiary, to provide details of its 14 projects that are awaiting clearances, including those pertaining to environment and forest.

Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has made presentation before Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal on its projects awaiting environment and forest clearances.

'I have been made nodal officer for monitoring these 14 projects...with a view to fast-track and expedite their development,' a Coal Ministry official said in a letter to CCL CMD Gopal Singh.

'I shall be grateful if a brief note on each of the 14 projects inter-alia incorporating status of the pending approvals, especially with regard to EC/FC (Environment clearance/Forest Clearance)' be submitted, he said.

Some of the 14 projects awaiting clearances are Panchra Integrated OC (Open Cast), Koed-Manatu-Saradhu OC/Sanghamitra OC, Ashok Expn OC and Pundi Expn OC.

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