India's captive coal mines, which produce coal for their own downstream companies, are allowed to sell half of their annual output in the open market, Indian government said on October 5. "The additional supply of coal from captive mines will help ease the coal shortage at power plants and replace some of the imported coal as well," the coal ...
Coal supply by CIL to captive power plants, cement sector drops in May. The coal supply by the PSU to the sponge sector also dropped 8.74 per cent year-on-year in May. However, supply to the steel sector went up by 67.83 per cent and to the power sector increased by 19.48 per cent last month, over May 2021. 05 Jun, 2022, 12.14 PM IST.
The companies which relied on coal, could not compete with the companies which had captive coal blocks. The country was already dependent on coal import and this dependence further increased. The Standing Committee on Coal and Steel revealed in 2013 that despite the country being in an acute coal shortage, just 30 of the 195 captive coal blocks ...