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Coal block auction: CIL seeks clarity on three mines

CIL tells govt list includes two blocks already allocated to it and mining work was on in another mine post-deallocation

The Supreme Court had in September quashed the allocation of 204 coal blocks allotted to various companies since 1993. Photo: BloombergPremium
The Supreme Court had in September quashed the allocation of 204 coal blocks allotted to various companies since 1993. Photo: Bloomberg

New Delhi: With a fresh process underway for the allocation of 204 coal mines for their “development and optimum utilization", Coal India Ltd (CIL) has informed the government that the list also includes two blocks already allocated to it and mining work was on in another mine post its deallocation.

However, these three blocks figure in the ‘Schedule I’ list of those coal mines, which are being auctioned afresh under an ordinance promulgated by the government in the wake of their cancellation by the Supreme Court, Coal India has informed the coal ministry. Under the ordinance, “It is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take action for the development of Schedule I coal mines and extraction of coal on continuous basis for optimum utilization".

The ordinance further says that the ‘Schedule I coal mines’ are those blocks whose allocation was cancelled by the Supreme Court order of 24 September 2014 and include those allotments which may have been deallocated prior to and during the pendency of that case. The Schedule I coal mines are “to be allocated by way of public auction". Asking the coal ministry to do the “needful", CIL has said that the two blocks in Jharkhand have been already allocated to its subsidiary Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL).

Besides, “mining activities are going on" in another block in West Bengal, which was deallocated earlier and returned back to Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), also a subsidiary of CIL. CIL, in its letter, said that the East of Damagoria (Kalyaneshwari) block was returned back to BCCL after its de-allocation, and mining activities are going on there. Under the Schedule I list, this block was earlier allotted to West Bengal Power Development Corp. Ltd (WBPDCL). With regard to the other two blocks, CIL said that Brahmini and Chichro Patsimal coal mines in Jharkhand have been already allocated to it by coal ministry, but they are appearing in the Coal Mines (Special Provision) Ordinance under the ‘Schedule I’. The coal ministry has earlier cancelled the allocation of Brahmini and Chichro Patsimal coal blocks in Jharkhand given to a NTPC and Coal India joint venture (JV). Later, the mines were allocated to Coal India.

The Supreme Court had in September quashed the allocation of 204 coal blocks allotted to various companies since 1993.

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Published: 29 Dec 2014, 12:44 AM IST
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