{"id":191225,"date":"2022-06-18T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=191225"},"modified":"2022-06-18T21:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:30:44","slug":"coal-ministry-releases-eight-year-achievement-report-of-coal-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coal-ministry-releases-eight-year-achievement-report-of-coal-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Ministry releases Eight Year Achievement Report of Coal Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister of Coal has released a report titled \u201cReforms &amp; Achievements of the Ministry of Coal Since 2014\u201d. The report highlights the major achievements of the Ministry of Coal during the last eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key initiatives launched by the Ministry of Coal in the last eight years?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><b>Coal Mining Surveillance &amp; Management System (CMSMS)<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of Coal in coordination with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics (BISAG), Gandhinagar and Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology (MeitY).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To use space technology for curbing illegal coal mining activity in the coalfield areas of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Khan-Prahari Mobile Application<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Launched by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of Coal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a tool for reporting any illegal coal mining incident through geotagged photographs as well as textual information by any individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mines-and-minerals-development-and-regulation-mmdr-amendment-act-2021\/\"><b>Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2021<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><b>SHAKTI Scheme<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has introduced the SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala (Coal) Transparently in India)-2017 Scheme to <\/span><b>provide coal linkages to the power plants which do not have linkage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, thus helping the generators to get cheaper coal and thereby reducing the cost of generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-of-india-has-set-a-target-to-achieve-100-million-tonnes-coal-gasification-by-2030-additional-secretary-coal-ministry\/\"><b>Mission Coal Gasification<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-march-14th-2020\/\"><b>Mineral Laws (Amendment) Act, 2020<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><b>FDI Policy in Coal Mining<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government of India has allowed 100% FDI under an automatic route for the sale of coal, and coal mining activities including associated processing infrastructure. This includes coal washery, coal handling and separation (magnetic and non-magnetic) subject to the provisions of CM(SP) Act and MMDR Act as amended from time to time and other relevant Acts on the subject.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Coal Ministry r<\/b><b>eleases Eight Year Achievement Report of Coal Sector<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 17th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union Minister of Coal has released a report titled \u201cReforms &amp; Achievements of the Ministry of Coal Since 2014\u201d. The report highlights the major achievements of the Ministry of Coal during the last eight years. What are the key initiatives launched by the Ministry of Coal in the last eight&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coal-ministry-releases-eight-year-achievement-report-of-coal-sector\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coal Ministry releases Eight Year Achievement Report of Coal Sector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-191225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700456979},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}