Govt may temporarily suspend receiving new coal supplies applications

03 Jul 2013 Evaluate

In view of the severe shortage of coal, the Govt may temporarily suspend receiving new coal supplies applications from power plants seeking coal supply for the next two years. As per the Coal Minister, applications for approval of coal supply of about 3200 million tonnes per annum were still pending with the ministry due to limited availability of coal from Coal India (CIL) as on 31st December 2012.

While the subsidiaries of CIL have already alloted 176 Letters of Assurance covering about 1,08,000 MW power generation capacity of which 26,000 MW has already been commissioned in the past three years and the remaining capacity of 80,000 MW is to be commissioned in the next five years, a negative balance is recorded in all the subsidiaries of CIL.

The Standing Linkage committee has further suggested that the fees submitted by unprocessed applications be deposited to government account though their processing should be kept in abeyance. In wake of the gas prices being hiked from the next fiscal and domestic coal unavailable, power firms might have to look towards imported coal, costs of which will only spiral down on to the consumers.

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