At least six people were killed and three others injured when explosives kept in a truck went off in a coal mine in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Monday, a police officer said.
'With the deployment of a higher degree of mechanisation, awarding contractual mining to MDOs and operational efficiency, we feel confident of achieving the desired target.'
The Supreme Court order has created a new legal framework for coal mining by ruling that only the Union government and its entities can do it.
Though there was no danger of the village being submerged as it was on elevated land, the district administration is finding it difficult to send rescuers.\n\n
The government on Friday said the auction of explored coal blocks may take place either by December or the beginning of the next year.
The group will be in a better position to now scale up most of its segments irrespective of government policy, but the bad news others add is its growing debt.
The PPP model for CIL was first mooted by the Planning Commission.
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