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Providing a big boost to the power sector, Coal India Limited (CIL) has signed 82 FSAs as on 25.07.2013, with power stations with a capacity of 34,793 MW. This includes 16 power stations belonging to NTPC and its Joint Venture companies (JVs). 11 more FSAs are ready to be signed shortly with NTPC or its …
The Union Government has envisaged that one of the ways forward to reduce the dependence on imports is to devise a Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy framework with CIL as one of the partners in order to increase the production of coal for supply to power producers and other consumers. Accordingly the Ministry of Coal …
Coal India Limited (CIL) had floated an expression of interest for selection of strategic partners from four countries namely Indonesia, South Africa, Australia and USA in July, 2009. After evaluation some of the proposals were short listed and due diligence activities were carried out for 3 brown-filed coal assets from listed companies one each in …
Coal India Limited (CIL) has adopted the policy of completely abolishing manual mining and replacing it gradually with mechanization like introduction of long wall mining, continuous miner, High Wall mining, Side Discharge Loader (SDL), Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) etc. This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal Shri Pratik PrakashBapu Patil in a written reply in Lok Sabha today. …
The Government has taken steps to expedite environment and forestry clearances, coordinate with the Ministry of Railways for enhancing availability of rail rakes and has approached State Government for necessary assistance in land acquisition and in problems relating to law and order to make CIL profitable. In addition, a series of steps have been taken …
The verdict is more or less out. Corporate India is ready to greet the New Year ahead with optimism. Not the guarded type that is politically correct, but genuine gut-felt pure optimism. And I say this after talking to a wide swath of opinion makers – economists, industrialists, traders, bureaucrats and politicians. While the level …
In addition to the existing mines/coal bearing areas with Coal India Limited (CIL), Ministry of Coal in May 2012 has tentatively assigned 116 coal blocks to CIL. Further, three coal blocks viz. Brahmini, Chichro Pastimal and East of Damogoria from the de-allocated coal blocks have been assigned to CIL for undertaking mining. Coal India Limited …
The Government has issued guidelines for setting up coal washeries on public sector coal companies’ land to bridge the demand-supply gap of washed coal. The details of private washeries operating in coal companies’ land are as under:- Coal Company Name ofWashery Capacity [in Million Tonnes(Mt)/year] Present Status Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL) M/s Spectrum Coal & Power Ltd. 7.0 of washed …
Coal India Limited (CIL), besides taking up coal production through its own resources, has also outsourced some of its operations to increase total coal production to meet the present demand. Under such situation, responsibility of coal production in a few mines of CIL, have been given to few agencies under long term contract through open …
Ministry of Power (MoP) and Central Electricity Authority (CEA) had mooted a proposal that Coal India Limited (CIL) import coal to fulfill its Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA) obligations towards power stations, for supplies at Gross Calorific Value (GCV) parity price of domestic coal. Supply of such coal would be decided on the basis of the …