Some of the measures taken to bring down the cost of production by Coal India Limited (CIL) include the following: e-reverse auction for finalization of contracts for explosives implemented. Action taken for improving competition in tenders and cost reduction: In case of procurement, introduction of Reverse Auction (RA) for tenders valued more than 1 crore with Start Bid price as ...

          In order to meet the requirement of thermal power plants (TPPs), Coal India Limited (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) have offered coal through road mode from available pithead stocks to TPPs which are located within 50 kms to 60 kms from the nearest mine. As a result of these efforts, coal supply to power plants has been 457.36 ...

Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Shri R.K. Singh inaugurated the‘International R&D Conclave’- two-day conference on Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of R&D in Indian Power Sector, organised by Central Electricity Authority (CEA), here today. In his address inaugural, Shri Singh stressed upon the need of a dedicated R&D department in CEA to coordinate the ...

The Government approved a new policy for allocation of future coal linkages in a transparent manner for power sector consumers. This policy is christened as ‘Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala (Coal) Transparently in India’ (SHAKTI). The policy is an important initiative in alleviating one key challenge in power sector, viz. lack of coal linkage and is expected to positively ...

For the development of Biofuels, a National Policy on Biofuels has been announced in the year 2009. The Government, is implementing the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme under which, Oil Marketing Companies sell ethanol blended petrol with percentage of ethanol up to 10% as per BIS specifications, depending upon its availability. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State ...