Kutch: The state monitoring cell (SMC), working under the supervision of the Director General of Police (DGP) on Friday, excavated a well-established mafia. The racket was stealing imported coal and was putting back inferior quality coal in the consignment in Kutch. After getting a tip, SMC raided a farm behind the highway hotel in Samakhiyali. They detained 15 people with 12 vehicles. Police also found and seized 559 metric tonnes of coal worth Rs 46 lakh imported from Australia. Unloading o...Read More

Gandhinagar: The first load of coal has been dispatched through a newly laid railway line from Bedi Port near Jamnagar. By stating it as “first-of-its-kind” rail connectivity, the Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr. Bhupendra Patel congratulated Gujarat Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation(G-RIDE), the state’s Joint Venture Company (JVC) with Indian Railways. This JVC has implemented the project based on the PPP model through engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts with...Read More

Jamnagar: The thermal power station in Sikka run by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSEC) will possibly remain shut till Diwali due to the shortage of coal, it is learnt. The thermal power station with capacity of electricity production of 9 thousand megawatt per day in Sikka has shut down for the last one month due to the shortage of coal. Both units at this thermal power station are inoperative at present and around 350 workers working in both plants are employed in maintenance work...Read More

New Delhi: Union Minister of Power, New and Renewable Energy, Shri R.K. Singh reviewed the coal stock position in all thermal power plants including those plants which are supplying power to distribution companies of Delhi. Yesterday on 9th October, 2021, the total despatch of coal from all sources (Coal India Limited, Singareni Collieries Company, Captive Coal Mines and imported coal) was 1.92 million tonnes while the total consumption was 1.87 million tonnes. Thus, the coal despatch have excee...Read More

New Delhi:An inter-Ministerial sub-Group led by Ministry of Coal has been monitoring the coal stock situation twice a week. In order to manage the coal stock and ensure equitable distribution of coal, Ministry of Power constituted a Core Management Team (CMT) on 27.08.2021 comprising of representatives from MOP, CEA, POSOCO, Railways and Coal India Limited (CIL) to ensure daily monitoring. The CMT is closely monitoring and managing the coal stocks on daily basis and ensuring follow up actions wi...Read More

New Delhi: The CAG has picked holes in the e-auction of coal mines by the NDA government last year saying multiple bids by corporate groups through joint ventures or subsidiaries did not give an assurance that potential level of competition was achieved in the first two tranches. In a report tabled in Parliament today, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said competition may have been restricted in auction of 11 coal blocks on account of multiple bids by corporate groups made...Read More

Melbourne Bogged down by delays for six years, Adani may pull out from the proposed 21.5 billion dollar rail and mine project in Australia amid a series of legal challenges from environmental groups against the Indian energy giant's plans to build one of the world's largest coal mines in the country. Stating that he was "disappointed", the company's founder and chairman Gautam Adani told 'The Australian' newspaper that the "pit to plug" project was yet to receive the green light after s...Read More