New Delhi: The government is expected to resolve the contentious concern of coal quality supplies between power producer NTPC and Coal India Ltd within a couple of weeks.
As per to sources, at a meeting with the officials from the Coal Ministry, CIL & NTPC, Power & Coal Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the govt will soon end the coal quality woes impacting the 2 state-owned companies.
“The minister is getting out a solution to the fuel quality issue which will be suitable to both the parties (NTPC & Coal India),” said an official who attended the meeting.
He included that some solution can be predicted in a couple of weeks.
The Power Ministry & NTPC have alleged that the quality of coal supplied by CIL is low grade & stones and boulders are getting dispatched in supplies even after the intro of the third party sampling mechanism.
Moreover, the power producers have increased concerns pertaining to coal companies – Coal India subsidiaries – charging project developers 40 % premium over Coal India notified price for supply of coal.
Earlier, it had also alleged that the coal companies were charging a premium of 20 % over Coal India informed price for coal supplies to tapering linkage holders.
Moreover, the power producers have said that the mechanism for third party sampling of coal quality, which was released in October last year at loading points, could not address the quality issue & so there is a “need to be done at unloading point”.
The issue of coal quality last year had resulted in a standoff among NTPC and Coal India.
Last year, NTPC had claimed that it was getting supplied inferior quality of coal, which was observed by Coal India stopping supplies to NTPC’s plants saying the power major owed large dues to the coal PSU.
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