The companies that had been allotted coal blocks in the

last five years include a joint group of JLD Yawatmal Energy Limited, RKM Power Gen Private Limited, Visa Power Limited, Green Infrastructure and Vandana Power (in Raigarh), SKS Ispat and Power Limited and Prakash Industries Limited (in Korba and Raigarh). Others are Rathi Udyog Limited (in Korba), Binani Cement (cancelled), Goa Industrial Corporation (Raigarh), Electrotherm Private Limited and Grasim Industries Limited (cancelled). In 2009, two coal blocks were allotted in Korba and Sarguja region. While one was allotted jointly to Monet Ispat and Topworth Steel Private Limited another was to Akaltara Power Limited. In 2010, no coal block was allotted in the state while in 2011 two blocks were allotted to a consortium of 16 companies and jointly to Coal India Limited and SKS Ispat and Power Limited, according to the CM's reply. However, the reply did not mention the status of the seven remaining companies where production could not take off in this period.