Tara block withdrawn from commercial coal mining auction process
Hindustan TimesRAIPUR The Union coal ministry has withdrawn the Tara coal block from the commercial mining auction process following objections by the Chhattisgarh government as it falls in an area with 81% forest cover in the state’s Hasdeo Aranya, according to a notice issued by the ministry last Friday. On June 23, the Chhattisgarh government wrote a letter to the central coal ministry to keep nine coal blocks out of 23 from the auction process for commercial mining citing environmental reasons. Tara coal block is in the Hasdeo Aranya forest area and has 15.96sq km of very dense forest area in the coal mine. The state government had also said that the Chhattisgarh forest and climate change department cited loss to the environment as the reason for asking the central government to withdraw the nine coal blocks.
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