Centre in no mood to raise coal royalty demand of Odisha

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik emphasized the state's demands for an increase in the rates of royalty during the meeting at Lok Seva bhawan.
He also said that the state government should get a share from the tax collected on coal by the central government.
But the Centre seems not to be in the mood to consider the Odisha government's demand for revision of coal royalty.
Over which, Union Coal and Mines Minister Prahlad Joshi on Friday said that it is linked to the power tariff and it is a larger policy decision.
Prahlad Joshi said, "Since past four years we have introduced District Mineral Fund [DMF] by which all state governments are getting 4.2 %, I have brought it to the notice of the Chief Minister."

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