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The Coal Ministry on Tuesday allotted 38 mines to Central and State public sector units including NTPC and SAIL, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said.
The allotment to Centre and State entities comes after the Government recently ended two rounds of auctioning of coal blocks for private companies. The Supreme Court had in September 2014 cancelled the allocations of 204 blocks, leading to the current auctions and allocations.
Most of the mines allotted are for the power sector, except one Sitanala mine given to SAIL. A majority of the mines have gone to the earlier allocatees.
Out of the 38 mines, eight — Barjora, Barjora (North), Gangaramchak & Gangaramchak Bhadulia, Tara East & Tara West, Pachwara North and Kasta East — have gone to West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd.
Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd has been awarded six mines — Baranj I, II, III & IV and Manora Deep and Kiloni.
NTPC got five mines — Chhatti Bariatu, Chatti Bariatu (South), Kerandari, Talaipalli amd Dulanga.
Damodar Valley Corporation has been allotted Khagra Joydev mine. Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam was allotted three mines — Parsa East, Kanta Basan and Parsa, while Chattisgarh State Power Generation Company has been given three mines — Gare Palma Sector III, Gidhmuri and Patoria.
Odisha Coal and Power got two blocks — Manoharpur and Manoharpur Dipside blocks.
The Ministry had received 107 applications from public sector undertakings for allocation. The Government has already earned over ₹2 lakh crore by auctioning just 33 blocks, surpassing the ₹1.86-lakh crore loss estimated earlier by government auditor CAG for allotment of mines without auction.
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