NTPC, CIL put an end to the year old scuffle

11 Apr 2013 Evaluate

In a solution to year old scuffle between Coal India and its biggest customer NTPC over the quality of coal issue, Central government has suggested both the companies to jointly test coal before it is dispatch. Recently, Coal India’s eastern subsidiary threatened to snap coal supplies to NTPC after the power producer refused to honour bills alleging its concerns over quality of coal.

Power producer NTPC has for a long now complained about country’s monopoly coal miner, Coal India’s quality of coal that is heavily adulterated with rocks and stones for its plants, which besides hurting company’s output also has been slowing down the incoming contracts. On account of this the company also held back a payment of Rs 2000 crore to the coal behemoth. NTPC, further, insisted that it would pay only on the basis of the calorific value of the fuel it receives, not for the entire consignment that includes rocks and stones.

However, both state firms have now agreed on adopting a common method of calculating price depending on the amount of heat that can be generated by burning a particular amount of coal.

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