Amendment Bill, which seeks to create an enabling environment for investors by promoting "ease of doing business" and delinks petroleum operations from mining, was passed by a voice vote in RS Tuesday.

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a landmark bill with sweeping measures aimed at making it easier to do business in the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) sector and attract greater investments.

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill that aims to delink petroleum operations from mining, clarify the grant and extension of petroleum leases and create a new dispute resolution mechanism for the exploration and production sector.