The much-anticipated cryptocurrency bill, however, is missing from the list, reports Shrimi Choudhary.
Centre plans to acquire land and then give it on lease to miners.
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its final verdict on coal mine allocations later this week.
The Congress party on Tuesday vowed to oppose the present format of the land bill both inside the Parliament and outside.
Coal accounts for more than 60 per cent of India's electricity capacity, and the government plans to nearly double annual coal output by 2020, opening a new mine nearly every month
For PPP projects, clause on consent requirement could be abolished or brought down to 50% of land owners, against the current 70%
'If I am angry, then I do not have the right to be in the Cabinet. Whatever I have done, I have ensured that farmers' interests are protected,' Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh, who 'abstained' from a meeting with the President on the ordinance, tells Rashme Sehgal.
The ordinance has returned near absolute power of discretion in land acquisition, except in tribal areas, into the hands of the bureaucracy yet again
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