The Nominated Authority, Ministry of Coal today opened the bids for six underground coal blocks under 12^th round of commercial coal blocks’ auction. Bids have been received for 2 coal blocks out of 6 underground coal blocks.

The online bids were decrypted and opened electronically in the presence of the bidders. Subsequently, sealed envelopes containing offline bid documents were also opened in the presence of bidders. Entire process was displayed on the screen to the bidders. 14 bids have been received online as well as in physical form against 2 coal blocks.

Block -wise list of bids received online is as under:

A total of 8 companies have submitted their bids in the auction process. The list is as submitted below:

The bids will be evaluated by a multi-disciplinary Technical Evaluation Committee and Technically Qualified Bidders will be shortlisted for participation in the electronic auction, to be conducted on MSTC portal.

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Shuhaib T

Underground Press Release