Replying to a query in Rajya Sahba, Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said of the 10 projects of Coal India Ltd (CIL), three are in Odisha, two each are in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and one in Chhattisgarh. While in five coal mining expansion projects, environment clearances (EC) was given in May, in the remaining five cases the nod was given in July.
