NTPC Ltd.

State run, NTPC has restarted joint sampling of coal with Coal India, looking full load supply to its power plants. Earlier, the power major had discontinued participating in the joint sampling process with Coal India following disagreement over the quality of coal.

Following which, Coal India employed the newly formed national laboratory, Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad, for neutral coal quality certification for supply to NTPC plants in the East. Pursuant to which, NTPC has decided to continue the process till a third-party sampling agency is in place.