NEW DELHI | Nov 23, 2015: Power plants of public sector undertakings will get coal supply from Coal India till their captive coal mines become operational, coal secretary Anil Swarup said.
"In-principle decision has been taken for grant of bridge kinkages to power plants of central or state government enterprises that have been allotted coal blocks under government dispensation route," he said on Monday.
Bridge linkage shall act like a short-trem linkages to bridge the gap between requirement of coal by a thermal power plant and the start of production from the linked coal block till such time the production actually starts, he said.
Such supply could be granted for a period of three years only to blocks where development of may take time.
Coal India estimates a coal requirement of 25-40 million tonnes per annum in the next three years on this account.
NTPC's Ramagundam plant in Telengana has already been granted such coal supply till the time its Mandakini-B mine in Odisha begins operations.
(Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/)