"We are planning to offer four coal blocks to the power sector and other six for non-power sectors," coal secretary S K Srivastava told PTI.
He said that in another one month the government was hoping to concretise the road map for the auction.
The ministry was learnt to have shortlisted some 29 blocks that would be put for auction through competitive bidding route.
Srivastava said the government would auction the coal blocks after deciding on the sectors to be offered.
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The government, in the past, had expressed confidence in completing the auction by March.
The Coal ministry was also in the process of finalising new bidding rules and a draft Request For Proposal (RFP) for public feedback had already been issued.
The draft RFP said that if an allottee was found to have directly or indirectly engaged in a corrupt, fraudulent, coercive, undesirable or restrictive practice in the bidding, then it won't be eligible to participate in any tender or RFP for another five years.