cover image: JUST TRANSITION FRAMEWORK FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN INDIA’S COAL

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JUST TRANSITION FRAMEWORK FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN INDIA’S COAL

7 Feb 2024

This estimate would form abandoned/closed before the year 2009 issued by the Ministry of Coal in 2022 captured the basis of calculating the annual cost of closure of the mine for every year of the lifetime the essence of a just transition when it stated the purpose of the guidelines as follows - of the coal mine. [...] With the closure “There is a need to close these [coal] mines scientifically in such a of the mine and the start of mine closure activities under the final mine closure plan - the manner that they provide benefit to the community, prevent illegal mining company can withdraw upto 50% of the total deposited amount in the ESCROW mining, ensure the safety and repurposing of the mined out land … accoun. [...] The framework for the utilisation of this fund is laid out by addressed in the guidelines which call for the identification of such businesses and if the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) the objectives for which are as they can continue beyond the closure of the mines and for the expectation of the mining follows affected communities on the closure of the mine. [...] Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Coal in 2009 mandated two components in a MCP - Progressive/Concurrent Mine Closure Plan and the Final Mine Closure Plan, wherein the former is to include land use activities that are to be carried throughout the period of mining to prepare for closure and the latter is concerned with activities that begin in the last five years of the mining project and contin. [...] The Guidelines for Preparation, Formulation, Submission, Processing, Scrutiny, Approval and Revision of Mining Plan for the coal and lignite blocks issued in 2020 contains the latest FOUR OF THE TOP FIVE STATES WITH THE MOST update in guidelines for MCP formulation for coal mining and requires mining plans at the CONTRIBUTION FROM COAL TO THE DMF, COAL outset to contain progressive and final mine.
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India