Notification for amendment in Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2017
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-25062026-273810
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 457] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2026/ASHADHA 1, 1948
MINISTRY OF COAL
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 22nd June, 2026
G.S.R. 508(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and clause (d) of sub-section (2) of
section 13 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), the Central Government
hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2017, namely:—
1. (1) These rules may be called the Coal Blocks Allocation (Amendment) Rules, 2026.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2017,
(i) in rule 8, — for the words “performance bank guarantee”, wherever they occur, the words “performance bank
guarantee or insurance surety bond” shall be substituted;
(ii) after sub-rule (9), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:-
“ (9A) Any successful allocatee who has provided a performance bank guarantee prior to the commencement of the
Coal Blocks Allocation (Amendment) Rules, 2026, shall have the option to replace the ‘performance bank guarantee’
with an ‘insurance surety bond’.”
[F. No. 11022/01/2015-CA-III]
RUPINDER BRAR, Addl. Secy.
Note. — The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide notification
number G.S.R. 877(E), dated the 13th July, 2017 and subsequently amended vide notification number
G.S.R. 300(E), dated the 18th May, 2020 and vide notification number G.S.R. 394(E), dated the
29th May, 2023.
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