Of the 38 mines offered for auction, the Ministry of Coal received a total of 76 eligible bids for 23. The technical bids comprising online and offline bid documents as part of the auction were opened at 10.00 am on Wednesday. This was done in the presence of bidders who were given the option of joining the meeting in either in-person or virtually.

Hindalco Industries Ltd and Hindustan Copper Ltd (HCL), a Miniratna central public sector enterprise (CPSE) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the long-term purchase and sale of copper concentrate produced by HCL.

Of the 38 mines offered for auction, the Ministry of Coal received a total of 76 eligible bids for 23.

Following is the list of the projects which was cleared by Project Monitoring Group