Act Number: 20

Act Name: The Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957

Year: 1957

Enactment Date: 1957-06-08

Long Title: An Act to establish in the economic interest of India greater public control over the coal mining industry and its development by providing for the acquisition by the State of unworked land containing or likely to contain coal deposits or of rights in or over such land, for the extinguishment or modification of such rights accruing by virtue of any agreement, lease, licence or otherwise, and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Coal

Department:

Section 15: Costs.
    Every award made by the Tribunal shall also state the amount of costs incurred in the proceedings before it and by what persons and in what proportions they are to be paid.
Scroll to Top