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NEW DELHI: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has gone out of its way to sign fuel supply pacts with 11 companies, including alleged Coalgate beneficiaries, even before these firms reached the qualifying milestones such as acquiring land, the state-run monopoly's internal anti-corruption watchdog has said. In a report to the coal …
Guj CM had written a series of letters to PM since June 2010 seeking additional coal blocks for Guj Mineral Dev Corp The Centre has turned down Gujarat government requests for coal blocks. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had written a series of letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh since …
With delays plaguing 39 coal mining projects, the coal ministry has decided to approach the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) for clearing the hurdles. The newly-formed CCI is expected to take up these projects in its next meeting likely within a fortnight. In a note to the CCI on December …
With delays plaguing 39 coal mining projects, the coal ministry has decided to approach the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) for clearing the hurdles. The newly-formed CCI is expected to take up these projects in its next meeting likely within a fortnight. In a note to the CCI on December …
The newly-formed Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) is likely to approve automatic extension of environment clearances when it meets on Thursday, sources said. The move will not only do away with the tedious process of environment and forest clearance, but also free up over 65 million tonne (MT) additional coal …
Australian energy major MetroCoal Ltd has approached NTPC for forming a joint venture for developing that country’s biggest coal mine and ship the fuel for firing the state-run generation utility’s power stations. The offer has been conveyed to NTPC through PENTAQ Corporation, an Australian firm engaged in recycling energy and …
The Supreme Court’s questioning last week of the Centre’s authority to allocate coal blocks during the hearing of a public interest litigation regarding the ‘coalgate’ will have major implications for India’s coal industry. If the Centre chooses to take the court’s view for granted, then central and state-level public sector …
NEW DELHI: Delhi surrendered its allotment of 2,083 mw, or more than half its current daily demand, from November 1 even as the city suffered widespread blackouts between second week of that month and continued till the first week this month. While CM Sheila Dixit talked tough and ordered discoms …
A nine-member ministerial panel headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram will meet on Monday to finalise the draft of a Bill to set up a coal regulator, said a coal ministry official. This is the second meeting of the panel, which had met for the first time in July 2012. …
CIL subsidiary alleged to have compromised mine safety Bharat Coking Coal (BCCL), a subsidiary of Coal India (CIL), has come under the Competition Commission of India (CCI) scanner for floating a vendor-biased global tender against the country’s competition rule, thereby compromising the safety of mines. A source in the CCI …
Sounding a strong warning, including severe shortage of coal for thermal power plants, the Coal Ministry has predicted serious implications for the southern States of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and many northern and western States if important railway lines connecting coal fields in Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh are …
In the absence of transport network and faster envt clearances, benefits will be limited After nearly 40 years of state ownership, the chorus of support for privatisation of coal mines is growing louder. With the economy ravenously short of coal to fire its power plants, and the state-owned Coal India …
Aims to maximise realisation to meet Rs 30,000-cr target FinMin to meet ministries this week To maximise realisations from stake sale in two companies in its disinvestment pipeline — Oil India Ltd (OIL) and NTPC — the government has planned to sort out some of the issues before launching offer …
In an attempt to make power plants using imported coal viable, the government will recast its coal allocation policy to ensure that all such projects that have reached advanced levels of completion get up to 30% of their fuel requirements through indigenously produced coal. The move would benefit six power …
In its report on India’s coal sector, Pune-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) Prayas Energy Group has made a strong pitch for the setting up of an independent regulator to improve the performance and accountability of coal companies and provide a level-playing field. An independent regulator, however, needs to be responsible not …
State-run coal miner Coal India Ltd is heading for a restructuring, with the government on Monday inviting expressions of interest (EoI) from consultants to draw out a plan. The idea is to spin off CIL subsidiaries as independent entities to ramp up production by infusing competition. “It has been proposed …
India’s largest coal producer, staterun Coal India is not eligible for the first set of auctions for blocks although 17 of them are meant for public undertakings. “We have been given to understand that the blocks on offer under the auction are not meant for us. It is for stateowned …
Govt keen on ensuring fuel security doesn’t come in way of growth revival plans Concerned that fuel scarcity could hamper plans to revive economic growth, the government is planning to further relax green clearance norms for mining projects. Coal mining operations, which are stuck due to delays in forest clearance, …
Says CIL Doesn’t Have Capacity To Meet Demand Of 43,000 MW Power Plants New Delhi: Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has made a strong pitch for privatization of the coal sector to meet the growing coal demand from the industry. Ahluwalia, who advocated private investment in the coal …
Environment ministry had exempted some mining projects from public hearings The environment ministry’s latest relaxation of green norms for expansion of projects in the mining sector is set to lead to an annual rise of 45 million tonnes (mt) in Coal India Ltd’s (CIL) production. In a notification issued last …
