The Centre expects to receive around 100 bids during the 10th round of the commercial coal auction that was flagged off by Union coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy in Hyderabad on Friday, top coal ministry officials said.

As many as 67 coal mines from Telangana, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Odisha have been put on the block in this round, which marks the first time a coal auction was launched outside New Delhi.

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