The Cabinet Committee on Investment ( CCI), in its second meeting, will take up for green nod Coal India Ltd’s (CIL) 20 projects with combined production capacity of 37 million tonne a year, which can fire more than 7,000 MW power generation capacity.

Besides, the CCI is also expected to examine environmental hurdles holding up the implementation of three rail projects which are critical for transporting coal from mines located in Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.