Tag: Coal

Bhubaneswar: Of the total 139.2 million tonne of coal produced by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), 92.48 per cent of dry fuel were lifted through environment friendly surface miners. The coal produced by MCL through surface miners mostly feed to power plants across the country, an official release said adding that MCL was the first company […]

New Delhi: The Coal Ministry is expected to sign a pact on Monday with railways and the Odisha government to implement projects for evacuation of fuel, a top official today said. “MoU (memorandum of understanding) to be signed on 20th of April between the Coal and Railway (ministries) and Odisha government to implement railway projects […]

The government Wednesday started allocating cancelled coal blocks to state-owned entities and said that it will complete the process by the end of next month

New Delhi: Govermment today told Delhi High Court that JSPL and its promoter have made “lot of statements which were false” while challenging its decision to change the end-use of two coal blocks in Odisha and Chhattisgarh which had been earlier alloted to them. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain submitted before a bench of […]

Nagpur: Government is planning to set up a pilot project to produce urea from coal in Odisha soon, Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Hansraj Ahir said here today.

The government on Thursday kickstarted the auction process for cancelled coal mines with the launch of a portal for electronic bidding for 24 coal blocks in the first tranche

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved re-promulgation of an Ordinance to facilitate e-auction of coal blocks for private companies for captive use and allot mines directly to state and central PSUs

The government may not provide free power to coal producing states of Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh on account of negative impact of industrial activity in these states

CBI on Thursday filed the case diary and crime files in a sealed cover in a coal blocks allocation case related to Hindalco before a special court, complying with its order

Former Coal Secretary P C Parakh, booked for allegedly abusing his official position to grant a coal block to Hindalco, has made a written request to the CBI for postponing questioning scheduled for Friday to first week of May

In what was the first working of the new transparent regime of coal allocations, the central government in a meeting today with successful auction bidders decided that most clearances required to start mining would be would be incorporated in the "vesting order" transferring rights to the new owner

On the fourth day of auctions here today for schedule III category mines whose earlier allotments were cancelled by the apex court, Jaiprakash Cement Corp emerged as the successful bidder for the Mandla South coal field

Poor states, which are home to most of the country's coal resources, are poised to benefit from the ongoing auction of coal blocks whose allotments were earlier cancelled by the apex court, Coal secretary Anil Swarup said today

The Anil Ambani-led Reliance Cement, emerging as the highest bidder on the first day of coal block auctions, today won the Sial Ghoghri mine in Madhya Pradesh containing 5.61 million tonne of reserves

CBI on Monday filed its first charge sheet in a Delhi court in the coal blocks allocation case against Navabharat Power Pvt Ltd for allegedly misrepresenting facts and making "fraudulent" claims to "embellish" its applications to get allotments between 2006 and 2009