Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
CBI is investigating alleged irregularities in mines allotment without auction between 2006 and 2009 The Prime Minister's Office has given "instruction" to the Coal Ministry to help CBI in its probe into alleged irregularities in allotment of coal mines without auction between 2006 and 2009. "The Prime Minister himself wants …
New Delhi Even as the Prime Minister pitches for infrastructure investments, the Union environment ministry is planning to reduce the area available for mining and other infrastructure projects. Official sources told FE the ministry would soon earmark “inviolate areas” which would apply to all development and infrastructural projects, besides subsuming …
The country is facing acute coal shortage, hitting hard the power sector and moves are afoot to ensure that the production is enhanced The Coal Ministry has given three de-allocated mines, including two of NTPC, to CIL and asked it to appoint mine developers to begin the production from these …
The coal ministry has decided to form an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG), with ministries such as power and steel on board, to formally decide on de-allocating the non-performing blocks or forfeiting the Bank Guarantees (BGs) of the companies which have done nothing to develop the block after allocation. The ministry’s move …
The Coal Ministry is preparing a draft on public-private partnership (PPP) in the form of mining, development and operations (MOD) agreement for exploration of coal mines by private entities in close association with Coal India Limited (CIL) to push up coal production and induct new technology through private sector participation …
In a bid to decisively settle the bitter wrangling between power companies and Coal India Limited (CIL) over the terms of fuel supply to upcoming projects, the coal ministry is likely to propose a trigger level of 65 per cent for the current fiscal in the proposed Fuel Supply Agreements …
The coal ministry would push for significant dilution of the provisions of Coal India Ltd (CIL)’s current fuel supply pacts with power companies in tomorrow’s meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). “The ministry will propose lowering CIL’s supply commitment under new fuel supply agreements (FSAs) to 65 per cent …
Miner says it can’t ensure 80% fuel; officials to meet PMO principal secy today In a setback for power producers, lenders have said fuel supply pacts offered by Coal India are not bankable as they do not guarantee supplies while the state monopoly has said it cannot provide even 80% …
Two days after Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world’s largest coal producer, entered into fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with 27 power companies, some power producers, including Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd (Mahagenco), on Wednesday raised objections against some terms of the pacts. Mahagenco, one of the largest power producers …
States will have to play a proactive role in facilitating clearances and land acquisition to companies that bag coal blocks by placing the highest bid, but will have no role in the selection of bidders, said senior coal ministry officials familiar with the issue. The government plans to retain the …
CIL had asked for 138 mines, but Coal Ministry directed the PSU firm to recast its plans The government has allocated 116 mines to Coal India for expansion to help it boost production capacity amid the PSU firm drawing flak for coal shortages across the country. "The Coal Ministry allotted …
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week directed heads of key infrastructure ministries to meet newly assigned higher performance targets for the current financial year, the coal ministry has announced it would review production by coal companies on a monthly basis. Production is currently monitored once in every two months. …
New Delhi The government has directed Coal India to immediately review the force majeure clause in the fuel supply agreements (FSAs), being currently signed with power companies, to prevent disruption of coal supplies by the PSU on flimsy grounds. A source in the coal ministry said the CIL’s board has …
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Singh Yadav on Monday assured that the farmers whose land had been acquired for the Ghatampur power project would be suitably compensated. Presiding over the function for laying the foundation stone of the 1980 MW thermal power plant at Ghatampur, Yadav assured farmers of proper …
New Delhi: If the environment ministry’s draft proposal for ‘inviolate forest areas’ is accepted, large swathes of forests, including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, tiger reserves and wildlife corridors, would be out of bounds for all mining activities, not just coal excavation. The ministry’s draft lists criteria for identifying forest patches …
Lucknow Almost five years of frosty relations between the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government gave way to new-found bonhomie on Monday when leaders of the Congress and the Samajwadi Party shared the dais at the foundation stone laying ceremony for the R 11,088-crore, 1980 mw power plant in the …
FINAL REPORT PEGS GAIN FOR COS AT . 1.86 LAKH CR The Comptroller and Auditor General’s final report on the allocation of coal blocks has concluded the government did not follow a transparent policy in selecting beneficiaries and was wrong in ignoring a 2004 recommendation by the secretary in the …
The coal ministry has conveyed to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that it may not be possible to accept Planning Commission’s proposal to institutionalise a price pooling mechanism to encourage import of coal. The arrangement, the ministry argues, will hike the price of domestic coal by about 6 per cent …
The government might have asked Coal India Ltd (CIL) to resort to imports to smoothen coal availability for fuel-starved power plants, but the state-owned miner has chalked out a detailed plan to avoid costly shipment of the commodity or to at least keep these to a minimum. Its latest strategy, …
Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan & West Bengal had wanted the system of allotment through screening committee to continue. Opposition parties ruling mineral-rich states resisted auctioning of coal blocks and pitched for free allocation, which according to a leaked draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India gave companies windfall gains …
