By Surojit Mahalanobis
Coal mining issues are getting murkier increasingly in the country. Like the previous Congress led-government, the incumbent NDA too seems groping into holed-up challenges and cannot find much light beyond the tunnel. The opportunity is unique this time in the NDA government as the main party BJP is now armed with the single largest mandate, enough to institute its bold decisions, albeit through a consensus for the sake of the country’s unchallenged efforts towards energy security.
For the power ministry, enough time has already been wasted. The ground realities and challenges that abound in the allocated coal blocks are yet to be addressed. It is now a national problem and the concerned ministries and the PMO must be able to take measures enough to commence mining in the idle blocks.
There are two terms here, Sustainability, and Energy Security, which are parameters
