Regulating India’s Coal Sector: Lessons for the Future, from the Past

JEL Codes- Regulated Industries and Administrative Law K23, Regulation and Industrial Policy L50

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  • Shivjeet Parthasarathy Jindal Global Law School

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https://doi.org/10.54945/jjpp.v6iII.169

Abstract

This essay will examine the desirability of establishing a regulator for the coal sector, and demonstrate its essentiality. The argument is centrally premised on the Government’s policy towards the coal sector, and how these policies are poised to turn the sector into the biggest contributor to India’s 5 trillion USD economic goal. With such lofty ambitions, it becomes imperative to ensure that there is an independent regulator, who can steer the sector into eficiency while balancing competing interests. Analysing the need for a coal-sector regulator becomes all the more important when considering how the history of the sector has been coloured with concerns of ineficiency, scams, human rights abuses, and environmental concerns. This paper will look at the historical context of the sector’s operation in India and the current policies, evaluate the eficiency of the sector by looking at the policy for allotments of coal blocks and the surrounding litigation, and attempts to chart out a way forward.

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Author Biography

Shivjeet Parthasarathy, Jindal Global Law School

Shivjeet Parthasarathy is a ifth-year BA LLB student at the Jindal Global Law School. His interests lie in the ield of public law, regulation, and regulatory theory

Published

2022-10-01

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Parthasarathy, S. (2022). Regulating India’s Coal Sector: Lessons for the Future, from the Past: JEL Codes- Regulated Industries and Administrative Law K23, Regulation and Industrial Policy L50. Jindal Journal of Public Policy, 6(II), 43–51. https://doi.org/10.54945/jjpp.v6iII.169

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