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Sriprakash Jaiswal asks to Jharkhand CM to recall INR 25,000 crore notice to CIL

Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal in a letter to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has dismissed the state's INR 25,000 crore claim from CIL saying the "question of payment of any surface rent or land rent does not arise".

Asking the state to withdraw directions given to coal companies, including CCL (a CIL arm) immediately, he has said: "Coal mines vest absolutely with the central government and thereafter the rights of the central government in relation to lands, coal mines or coking coal mines, as the case may be, are made exercisable by a government company."

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