<p>The Eastern bench of the NGT took up suo-motu the matter of illegal mining in Raniganj's Egra, Asansol district of West Bengal. The court directed notice be issued to General Manager Eastern Coalfields;
The South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) will be putting up safety messages on 'Retro Reflective Sign Boards' at different locations of its Gevra mining project in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, officials
Lanco has received 2-year extension of environment clearance validity, with certain conditions, for its 1,320 MW thermal power plant in Maharashtra. After detailed deliberations, the Environment Ministry
The coal mining proposals belonged to south eastern coalfields, Madhya Pradesh, eastern coalfields in Godda district, Jharkhand and to central coalfields in Bokaro. An expert panel of the environment ministry
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Amit Kumar Chaturvedi Vs. Union of India & Nine Ors. dated 21/04/2014 regarding rising of coal dust at the coal yard
Around 12 million tonnes of coal was lost due to the absence of regulatory clearances in 2013-14 The Hindu has learnt. This accounts for nearly 60 per cent of the 19.5 million tonne shortfall reported
Coal India (CIL) is planning to move court against the Madhya Pradesh government decision defining coal as a biological resource and warning of imposing a benefit-sharing levy on state-run coal companies,
Korba: While Parliament remains stalled over the CAG report on coal block allocations, a land acquisition row threatens to disrupt production at India’s largest open cast coal mine. In fact, it exposes
The development comes ahead of CIL's board meeting to approve FSA with power companies Coal India (CIL) has agreed to certain changes in the fuel supply pact to be entered with state-nominated agencies. "Model Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA) applicable for state-nominated agencies has been agreed by CIL in its meeting," the PSU firm said in a letter to its subsidiary firms including Eastern Coalfields, Central Coalfields and Western Coalfields among others.
Power generation was hit at the 2,600 MW National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ramagundam due to poor supply of coal from the Singareni Collieries Company limited and other coal agencies during this rainy season. Presently, the NTPC Ramagundam was generating only 2,000 MWs against its installed capacity of 2,600 MWs due to shortage of coal. The power generation would further come down with the authorities planning to go in for annual overhaul of the seventh unit of 500 MWs from Tuesday late night onwards.
