Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
SC judges suspected a lack of objective criteria in the selection In the ongoing hearing on Thursday before the Supreme Court in the coal block allocation controversy, the government presented information sought by the judges on Wednesday about companies selected and rejected by the screening committee. The judges wanted the …
WASHINGTON: Energy-related carbon dioxide pollution grew by 2% last year after declining several years in a row, a government report said Monday. The increase was largely due to a small boost in coal consumption by the electric power industry, according to the study by the US Energy Information Administration. American …
The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has issued a showcause notice to Utkal Coal Ltd (UCL) for slow progress in development of the Utkal-C coal block. UCL is a special purpose vehicle formed by Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA), an integrated ferro alloys producer based in Odisha. The MoC …
RPG Industries, Hindalco, SAIL, Jindal Steel, Monnet Ispat, GVK Power and Jaiprakash Associates among companies summoned for review The coal ministry has threatened to cancel allocations of reserves held by six companies, including Essar Power, Rungta Mines and the state utilities of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, as part of its …
The officers-in-charge of spending money on CSR activities must be made accountable for this failure to spend the CSR budget," said the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel, headed by Kalyan Banerjee in this report. Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Forty-Third Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on …
Letter to M/s Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding environmental clearance of Cluster XV (4 UG mines with a normative production of 0.325 MTPA with a peak prod. of 0.423 MTPA in a combined ML area of 1696.55 ha) of M/s Bharat Coking Coal Ltd …
A Bill to provide for the establishment of Coal Regulatory Authority to regulate and conserve resources in the coal sector, protect the interests of consumers of coal and producers of coal and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mandar Dalbehera Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 11/12/2013 regarding a proposed Coal Tar Industry. The NGT order states "It was pointed out that the proceedings of Engineer-in-Chief, Water Resources, Orissa shows that industry/mine shall not be allowed to …
A list of captive coal blocks which stand allocated to private companies including JSPL for generation of power is given in this data. Out of 36 captive coal block allocated to 40 private companies for power sector, 05 coal blocks allocated to 03 private companies have come into production.
Details of coal blocks allocated to private companies for power generation which have come into production along with production during 2010-11 to 2013-14 is given in the data. The details of utilization of coal by the private power companies, including JSPL, during each of the last three years and the …
The details of the requests received from the States including Kerala for allocation of coal linkages is given in the data. These requests received for coal linkages are to be considered by the Standing Linkage Committee for recommendations. Since Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiary coal companies have been …
Captive coal mining companies should be restricted from transferring surplus coal production outside their end-use sector, a high-level panel headed by Planning Commission member B K Chaturvedi has recommended. The surplus coal should be transferred at the notified price, it said. These firms will have the option of disposing of …
The mine, closed for years, was reopened six months back, says a minerd A coal miner was killed when a portion of the Bharat Coking Coal Limited’s underground coal mine collapsed in Nirsa, Dhanbad on Monday. Three mine workers remained trapped inside the mine at Basantimata colliery till late Monday …
The brouhaha over Coalgate has pushed the genuine long-term issues in coal to the background. India's coal reserves are smaller than estimated and the flurry of coal-based power plants that have been approved in recent years has seen a frenetic rush to tie up coal resources, which at this rate …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to give a comprehensive report with a complete break-up of the coal blocks in a tabular format, including allotments made to different companies, investments and the status of the projects. The apex court also decided to hear the plea of an association …
Coal India Limited is misleading shareholders by concealing information on the level of its extractable reserves, which could be exhausted in 17 years. The company has failed to disclose to stock exchanges that its extractable coal reserves are in fact 16% less than stated at the time of its 2010 …
Eligibility criteria relaxed for Jindal Steel & Power, say officials Though Coal Ministry is planning to take action against both private and public sector companies for not developing the coal blocks allocated to them over the past few years, it is learnt that some of these coal mines may have …
Pricing, entitlements and allocation need to be looked at carefully in the coal sector if the present mess has to be sorted out. This article proposes certain measures which can break the impasse and argues for a break-up of Coal India into smaller units as a possible solution.
Two former officials questioned; T.K.A. Nair’s statement to be recorded After procedural wrangles were ironed out, the CBI’s probe into Coalgate has now reached the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and its officials. Investigators have recorded statements of two former PMO officials, questioning them as witnesses in the questionable allocation of …
A Parliamentary panel has recommended removal of the provision of 26 per cent profit sharing by coal and lignite miners with project-affected people and replacing it with a system based on royalty payments by the firms concerned. The amendment was proposed by the Coal Ministry to the Standing Committee, headed …
