Ministry of Coal, Government of India

Auction/Allotment

Coal mining in India has been metamorphosed as far as the policy framework is concerned. From an earlier restrictive model, we have moved on to granting coal mining blocks pursuant to a competitive bidding process, and from prescribing specific end-use to permitting commercial sale of coal. The auction-based regime introduced in 2014 allowed private sector participation, however it was limited to captive usage in own end use plants. Now, the sector has been opened up for commercial coal mining by private players in 2020 and first ever successful auction of commercial mining was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 18.06.2020 and concluded with allocation of 18 coal mines.

Commercial coal block auctions are conducted in a two-stage online bidding process, which involves technical screening and submission of competitive initial price offer in the first stage, and a second and final stage where better price offers are intended to be received.

Commercial coal mining auctions are completely different from the earlier regime of restricted sectors, use and price. Now, there are no such restrictions at all. The auctions have terms and conditions which are very liberal, allowing new companies to participate in the bidding process, reduced upfront amount, adjustment of upfront amount against royalty, liberal efficiency parameters to encourage flexibility to operationalize the coal mines, transparent bidding process, 100% FDI through automatic route is allowed and reasonable financial terms and revenue sharing model based on the National Coal Index.

10 Rounds of Auction of coal / lignite mines have been conducted so far successfully auctioning 113 coal mines, details of which are as under:-

Mining Statistics by State
S. No	State	Number of Mines	No. of Fully Explored Mines	Sum of PRC (MTPA)	Royalty and Taxes (Rs. Cr.)	Revenue Share (Rs. Cr.)	Sum of Annual Revenue generated based on the PRC of mine (Rs. crore)	Sum of Capital Investment (Rs Crore)	Total Employment (Direct + Indirect)
1	Arunachal Pradesh	1	1	0.20	52.75	120.10	172.85	30.00	270
2	Assam	2	2	0.02	4.25	34.19	38.44	3.60	20
3	Chhattisgarh	16	9	34.91	3486.56	2346.73	5833.29	5236.50	47198
4	Jharkhand	31	20	44.40	4338.19	1852.09	6190.28	6660.00	60028
5	Madhya Pradesh	27	14	23.33	2744.89	1546.50	4291.40	3499.50	31542
6	Maharashtra	9	7	5.22	557.09	260.23	817.32	783.00	7057
7	Odisha	23	15	140.63	12377.12	4897.98	17275.10	21094.50	190131
8	Telangana	1	1	4.00	379.54	67.47	447.01	600.00	5408
9	West Bengal	3	2	4.89	284.85	86.33	371.18	733.50	6611
	Grand Total	113	71	257.60	24225.24	11211.62	35436.86	38640.60	348268

S.N	Title	Attachment	Date
101	Auction of Coal Mines for sale of Coal -Notice Regarding Revision in Exploration Status	Downloads File Size :105.06 KB File Type: PDF	15/12/2023
102	Pre Bid Meeting - Auction of Coal Mines for Sale of Coal	Downloads File Size :2.46 MB File Type: PDF	13/12/2023
103	Presentation by CMPDI, Ranchi	Downloads File Size :758.38 KB File Type: PDF	13/12/2023
104	Schedule of Tender Process - 18th Tranche CMSP - 8th Tranche MMDR	Downloads File Size :163.93 KB File Type: PDF	12/12/2023
105	Standard Operating Procedure for deciding requests for Change Notice under CMDPA/CBDPA	Downloads File Size :855.81 KB File Type: PDF	12/12/2023
106	Schedule of Tender Process - 17th Tranche CMSP - 7th Tranche MMDR-Second Attempt	Downloads File Size :165.24 KB File Type: PDF	12/12/2023
107	Auction of Coal Mines for Sale Of Coal - Notice for Pre-Bid Conference	Downloads File Size :132.08 KB File Type: PDF	08/12/2023
108	Notice regarding Revision in date of Pre-Bid Meeting	Downloads File Size :86.92 KB File Type: PDF	28/11/2023
109	Schedule of Tender Process - Second Attempt 17th Tranche CMSP - Second Attempt 7th Tranche MMDR	Downloads File Size :160.88 KB File Type: PDF	16/11/2023
110	List of Coal Mines - Second Attempt 17th Tranche CMSP - 7th Tranche MMDR	Downloads File Size :12.58 KB File Type: PDF	16/11/2023
111	Schedule of Tender Process - 18th Tranche CMSP - 8th Tranche MMDR	Downloads File Size :162.27 KB File Type: PDF	16/11/2023
112	List of Coal Mines - 18th Tranche CMSP - 8th Tranche MMDR	Downloads File Size :42.4 KB File Type: PDF	16/11/2023
113	Invitation of Bids for Auction of coal mines/Block for Sale of Coal	Downloads File Size :455.74 KB File Type: PDF	15/11/2023
114	Standard Tender Document - 7th Round 2nd Attempt	Downloads File Size :1.37 MB File Type: PDF	15/11/2023
115	Standard Tender Document - 8th Round	Downloads File Size :1.37 MB File Type: PDF	15/11/2023
116	Standard Agreement -7th Round 2nd Attempt	Downloads File Size :1.25 MB File Type: PDF	15/11/2023
117	Standard Agreement -8th Round	Downloads File Size :1.25 MB File Type: PDF	15/11/2023
118	Publishing of notice to declare successful bidders of six blocks of 7th round of commercial auction regarding	Downloads File Size :34.7 KB File Type: PDF	11/09/2023
119	Notice Regarding Return of Bid Security of Unsuccessful Bidders regarding	Downloads File Size :11.55 KB File Type: PDF	11/09/2023
120	Result of E-Auction for Commercial coal mines - Day 3	Downloads File Size :136.87 KB File Type: PDF	04/08/2023
121	Result of E-Auction for Commercial Coal Mines - Day 1	Downloads File Size :137.48 KB File Type: PDF	01/08/2023
122	Publication of Notices pertaining the Reimbursement of claims against mine closure activities from ESCROW Account-reg	Downloads File Size :2.22 MB File Type: PDF	31/07/2023
123	List of technically qualified bidders- 7th Round	Downloads File Size :248.95 KB File Type: PDF	31/07/2023
124	Auction of coal mines for sale of coal notice for withdrawal of coal mine	Downloads File Size :72.55 KB File Type: PDF	31/07/2023
125	Notice regarding return of Bid Security	Downloads File Size :16.63 KB File Type: PDF	31/07/2023
126	List of technically qualified bidders- 2nd Attempt of 6th Round	Downloads File Size :238.38 KB File Type: PDF	31/07/2023
127	Auction of coal mines for sale of coal calendar for electronic auction	Downloads File Size :76.54 KB File Type: PDF	31/07/2023
128	Notice regarding conduct of mock electronic auction	Downloads File Size :242.17 KB File Type: PDF	27/07/2023
129	Notice-Invitation of interest from prospective bidders for including mines for auction through commercial mining regarding	Downloads File Size :152.09 KB File Type: PDF	26/07/2023
130	Notice for e-auction Schedule	Downloads File Size :189.73 KB File Type: PDF	25/07/2023
131	List of Bidder-17th Tranche	Downloads File Size :191.61 KB File Type: PDF	30/06/2023
132	List of Bidders-Second Attempt 16th Tranche	Downloads File Size :179.54 KB File Type: PDF	30/06/2023
133	Notice for Bid Opening - 7th tranche 6th Tranche-second attempt	Downloads File Size :73.24 KB File Type: PDF	23/06/2023
134	Notice regarding Bid Due Date - 7th tranche and second attempt of 6th tranche of commercial auctions	Downloads File Size :136.15 KB File Type: PDF	23/06/2023
135	17th/7th Tranche of auction standard coal/lignite mine development and production agreement/coal/lignite block development and production agreement for sale of coal/lignite	Downloads File Size :1.82 MB File Type: PDF	19/06/2023
136	Standard tender document - Auction of coal mines for sale of coal/lignite	Downloads File Size :2.11 MB File Type: PDF	19/06/2023
137	AUCTION OF COAL MINES FOR SALE OF COAL - NOTICE FOR PRE-BID MEETING	Downloads File Size :347.3 KB File Type: PDF	19/06/2023
138	Auction of Coal Mines for sale of Coal - Upfront amount estimated exploration expense bid security and fixed amount	Downloads File Size :288.5 KB File Type: PDF	14/06/2023
139	Responses to Suggestions/Queries - Seventh Tranche - Part II	Downloads File Size :226.85 KB File Type: PDF	09/06/2023
140	Responses to Queries - Seventh Tranche - CMPDI - Part III	Downloads File Size :547.14 KB File Type: PDF	09/06/2023
141	Revised Scheduled of Tender Process of 2nd attempt of 16th/6th Tranche	Downloads File Size :624.43 KB File Type: PDF	24/05/2023
142	Notice regarding extension in timelines for schedule of tender process under Tranche 7 and Second Attempt of Tranche 6 under Commercial Coal mine auction	Downloads File Size :178.7 KB File Type: PDF	24/05/2023
143	Revised Scheduled of Tender Process of 17th/7th Tranche	Downloads File Size :622.15 KB File Type: PDF	24/05/2023
144	Responses to Queries - Seventh Tranche - Part II	Downloads File Size :563.74 KB File Type: PDF	15/05/2023
145	Response to Suggestions-Seventh Tranche	Downloads File Size :577.91 KB File Type: PDF	09/05/2023
146	Response to queries of 7th Tranche	Downloads File Size :603.68 KB File Type: PDF	04/05/2023
147	Notice regarding estimated timeline for preparation of GR-7th Tranche	Downloads File Size :70.85 KB File Type: PDF	28/04/2023
148	Notice for exclusion of three mines from auction in 7th Tranche	Downloads File Size :5.98 KB File Type: PDF	25/04/2023
149	Revised List of Coal Mines - 17th Tranche CMSP - 7th Tranche MMDR	Downloads File Size :211.94 KB File Type: PDF	25/04/2023
150	Pre-Bid Meeting held on 12.04.2023 by Transaction Adviser	Downloads File Size :3.8 MB File Type: PDF	13/04/2023

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