However Mr Gupta maintains he had no involvement in IST Steel and denies influencing the coalblock allocation process. Allegations against Naveen Jindal Congress MP, Naveen Jindal's Jindal Steel and Power got a coal field in February 2009 with reserves of 1500 million metric tones while the governmentrun Navratna Coal India Ltd was refused.
India has started the process of auctioning some blocks of critical and strategic minerals that are crucial for the nation's push to speed up energy transition and boost electric vehicle ...
The Coalgate Scam was unearthed by the CAG report on allocations of coal blocks. CAG report alleged that a loss of Rs. lakh crore was caused to the exchequer because of a nontransparent and discretionary allocation process. The beneficiaries of the scam are private players who have made windfall gains and have received highly valuable natural resources at almost free of cost.
The Coal Block Allocation Rules, 2017 were also enacted to pave the way for competitive bidding of coal blocks. As recently as June 2020, the Central government initiated auction of 41 coal blocks leading to an investment potential of Rs. 33,000 crore of capital investments over the coming years apart from allowing hundred percent foreign ...
ED attaches assets worth Rs 603 crore belonging to Vandana Vidyut Ltd. The move by agency was in connection with a coal block allocation case. ED alleged that directors of the firm destroyed forged sale documents. In a crucial development, the Enforcement Directorate today attached assets including factory building, plant and machinery and 23 ...
India: The Coal Ministry has begun the process of allotment of mines to central and state public sector units, starting with the allotment of 36 coal blocks. The Supreme Court had in September 2014 scrapped all but four of 218 coal blocks allocated by the government over the past two decades, in a tougherthanexpected ruling that sank shares of companies that have invested heavily in projects ...
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Total recall: What the coal blocks cases are about. In the early 1990s, the government decided to allocate to private companies coal blocks that were not part of the production plan of the public sector Coal India Ltd and the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL). A list of 143 coal blocks was prepared initially and inflated to 216 later.
The Coal allocation scam, dubbed in media as Coalgate, is a major political scandal concerning the Indian government's allocation of the nation's coal deposits to public sector enterprise (PSEs) and private companies. In a draft report issued in March 2012, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) office accused the Government of India of allocating coal blocks in an inefficient ...
Auction/Allotment. Coal mining in India has been metamorphosed as far as the policy framework is concerned. From an earlier restrictive model, we have moved on to granting coal mining blocks pursuant to a competitive bidding process, and from prescribing specific enduse to permitting commercial sale of coal. The auctionbased regime introduced ...
commercial auction of coal blocks is a sine qua non for the country. Moreover, coal needs for the development of the country are increasing rapidly. As per the Draft National Energy Policy of Niti Aayog, the demand for coal is expected to rise in the range of billion tonnes by 2030. Coal India Limited and
June 2012: Coal ministry forms an interministerial panel to review the process of allocation of blocks and to decide either on deallocations or forfeiture of bank guarantees. The government has ...
uniformity in provisions of all the 3 Acts governing coal block allocation. The Act permitted auction of coal mines for commercial mining by private entities. The ... Out of 38 blocks, the auction process was successfully completed for 19 blocks in November 2020. The ... As the world plans to phase out coal consumption, India had two alternatives:
process of allotment of coal blocks / coal linkages for thermal power projects, Ministry of Power has been issuing necessary communications from time to time. The communication dated 24th March, 2006 (/2003IPC) provided for the following priority in the matter of coal blocks/coal linkage allocation. i.
Allocation of earmarked land for development of pithead surface coal gasification projects for both 2 public and private sector players Policy for Methanol blending program (M15, M85 M100), differential pricing for M15 blend,
The legal framework for allocation of cancelled coal blocks was provided through the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015 (preceded by the two Ordinances in October 2014 and ... also provided for fixation of a ceiling price for power sector coal mines, which was to be Coal India Limited (CIL) notified price for the equivalent grade of coal ...
The government of India in the coal block case was questioned for going beyond their powers as given by the statutes which govern the coal and natural resources mining in India. The government wrongly took initiative of allocation of coal blocks without any auction. ... The whole process of allocation of coal blocks has been a huge example of ...
Follow Us. The Coal Ministry expects operationalisation of 58 coal blocks in 202223 and has set target of million ton coal production, an official statement said on Friday. "The Ministry of Coal has allocated coal blocks for captive end use and sale of coal/ commercial mining. million tonnes of coal has been produced in FY 202122 ...
The officials recommended that the word "transparent" should be inserted before the sentence "competitive bidding process" in the Coal Block Allocation Rules of 2017, which state that ...
Coal Block Allocation (Amendment) Rules 2020 have been notified ... •Out of 38 blocks, the auction process successfully completed for 19 blocks in November 2020 ... into India is situated in or is a citizen of any such country A company or a joint venture company formed
Need for Coal Gasification: Abundant indigenous Coal Source Source: GSI Coal Inventory 2020 2 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 400,000 Proved Indicated Inferred Total Coking Thermal Total Coal Resources in India (Million tons) • It is evident that India has huge reserves of coal, it would be beneficial for India if it ...
12 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(i)] NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section 13 and clause ... These rules may be called the Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2017. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. ... Allocation process.— (1 ...
Earlier this week, Lok Sabha passed the Bill that provides for the allocation of coal mines that were cancelled by the Supreme Court last year. In light of this development, this post looks at the issues surrounding coal block allocations and what the 2015 Bill seeks to achieve.
1. Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2017. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. Definitions. (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, . (a) "Act" means the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act ...
6 coal blocks were in a process to start production out of which 5 coal blocks were cancelled. 2015 Bill. As a lot of concerns were raised due to a number of cancellations which further resulted in shortage of power. Thus, the bill provided following details related to allocation of coal blocks:
allocation to coal production, advance submission of development schedule by the allocate and cancellation of allocation for nonadherence. Sectorwise allocation of coal blocks So far 208 coal blocks have been allocated to various public/private sector companies including Ultra Mega Power Projects of 4000 MW each being set up in Madhya
Allocation process was arbitrary, discretionary and nontransparent. There was no consideration of Merit, no Price discovery mechanism for national resources. Till now, the PSU, Coal India was the only commercial miner in the country for more than four decades which has shown monopolistic tendencies in the sector. Monopoly in mining sector was ...
The foregoing supports the following conclusions: • The allocation process prior to 2010 allowed some firms to obtain valuable coal blocks at a nominal expense • The eligible firms took up this option and obtained control of vast amounts of coal in the period 200509 • The criteria employed for awarding coal allocations were opaque and in ...
Coal Allocation: The full story. Coal mines in India are being opened for commercial mining for the very first time. While launching the auction process, the Prime Minister said coal mining will pave the way for development in the tribaldominated areas. But many experts believe that it will lead to natural calamities, displacement, and pollution.
Timeline of events related to captive coal block allocation in India 2 Figure 2: Summary of cancelled coal blocks and proposed allocations 6 Figure 3: Enduse classification of coal blocks by ...
COAL BLOCK ALLOCATION. Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 ... Commercial coal block auctions are conducted in a twostage online bidding process, which involves technical screening and submission of competitive initial price offer in the first stage, and a second and final stage where better price offers are intended to ...
The coal blocks allocation cases are among the CBI's longest running probes, with the agency last registering a fresh FIR in the case in January 2020. ... government decided to allocate such coal blocks to private companies that were not part of the production plan of PSUs Coal India Ltd and Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL ...
1. Directions of the Central Government for auction of coal mines under the CM (SP) Act, 2015. Downloads. File size : KB. File type: PDF. . 2. Minutes of 4th meeting held on under chairmanship of Additional Secretary (Coal) to identify additional coal / lignite blocks for allocation under rule 3 (2) of the Coal Blocks ...
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