State-owned CIL has earned revenue worth over Rs 1.52 lakh crore from coal sales in financial year 2021-22, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Coal India (CIL) earned revenue by selling 661.89 million tonnes of coal in the last fiscal year. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said the mahartana firm has garnered Rs 29,400 crore by selling 177.59 MT of coal in the April-June period of the ongoing financial year. The revenue figure of the first quarter of FY'23 is provisional, it added. While in FY'21, CIL earned Rs 1,26,786.13 crore from sale of coal, in FY'20 the figure stood at Rs 1,34,979.13 crore. In a bid to increase the revenues of the public sector companies operating in the coal space, the government has given them a go-ahead for diversifying into other sectors including renewable energy. The captive mine owners, other than atomic minerals, can sell up to 50 per cent of their annual mineral, including coal, in the open market after meeting t
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State-owned CIL has cancelled its maiden tender for short-term import of coal in which Adani Enterprises had emerged as the lowest bidder, sources said on Monday. Adani Enterprises, which had quoted around Rs 17,000-plus per tonne for importing 2.416 MT of coal, was earlier selected for the short-term shipment. However, for a medium-term tender for sourcing additional 6 million tonnes (MT) of coal from overseas, PT Bara Daya Energy had qouted Rs 2,000 per tonne less than the rate quoted by the Adani group firm. So, Coal India, in its board meeting held on July 8, decided to cancel the short-term tender of 2.416 million tonnes and PT Bara Daya Energy was asked to supply the indented quantity against the medium-term tender, the sources said. A query sent to Adani Enterprises seeking comment on the move remained unanswered. According to the sources, the letter for award of contract was issued to the lowest bidder of medium term-tenders for east and west coast supply on July ...
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Coal India's capital expenditure was Rs 1,841 crore in April-June period of last financial year
The Indonesian company quoted Rs 4,331 crore for the eastern coast tender and Rs 4,497 crore for the west coast.
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At the same time, coal despatch increased by 20.69 per cent to 75.46 MT from 62.53 MT during June 2022 as compared to June 2021.
"Coal India Ltd (CIL) has held five meetings under NCWA XI so far. Negotiations for mutually agreeable pact (is) in progress," the Ministry of Coal said in the statement on Wednesday.
Adani Enterprises has emerged as the lowest bidder in Coal India's tender for imports of the dry fuel with quoting over Rs 4,000 crore for supply of 2.416 million tonne, sources said
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A three-member team of the Power Ministry visited Coal India-arm MCL to monitor the availability of the dry fuel at various railway sidings, mines and prepare a plan for logistics
The country's largest domestic supplier has been appointed a quasi-canalising agency for sourcing overseas supplies
CIL has called for bids to supply 2.4 mt of coal to be delivered for the July to September 2022 period
Coal Ministry said it sought assistance from the World Bank and other global institutions for re-purposing its abandoned coal mines to make them stable and suitable for commercial purpose.
Apart from Adani, the other two names disclosed by CIL from its pre-bid meetings were contenders in the NTPC tender as well.
The government is gearing up to increase the stock of coal at power plants to 40 million tonne (MT) during the monsoon season, power minister R K Singh said.
India's coal import is likely to decline by 11.4 per cent to 186 million tonnes (MT) in the current financial year, even as the state-owned firm has issued tenders to source the fuel from overseas.
The imported coal would be supplied to state government-owned gencos and independent power producers (IPPs), 1.2 mt each