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According to reports, around 28,000 MW of projects were given loans without fuel supply, power purchase deals during the earlier government´s tenure.

The policy on surplus coal, expected to be announced soon, is likely to bypass Coal India Ltd (CIL) and allow captive miners to transfer surplus coal from specified end-use plants to other plants operated by the same company.

Turning around the coal sector in India is among the top priorities of the new government. Though the sector suffers from many anomalies, the health of the industry can be encapsulated by a single statistic

The 15th Regulators & Policymakers Retreat held in Goa from July 31-Aug 3, 2014 saw scintillating debates on key power sector issues like transparency, and competition and tariff reform; even as utilities from Gujarat, Delhi and West Bengal stole the show at the IPPAI award function.

Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL), a subsidiary of State-run Coal India Ltd, the world´s largest producer of the fuel, has opened a new mine with an initial capacity of 12 million tonnes (mt) a year in Amrapali, Jharkhand.

Against widening demand-supply deficit, the world's largest miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) is set to take up 118 projects envisaging 354 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) output in three years, Parliament has been informed.

The Government has advised power utilities to increase coal imports to meet fuel shortages and those that have fuel supply pacts with CIL to lift coal under "as is where is" scheme by arranging their own logistics.

Coal India Ltd and NMDC Ltd are among 36 State-owned companies that may need to sell about $11 billion of shares after the stock market regulator raised the minimum public holding in government entities