Government meet on 14th July to resolve environmental clearance issues of coal and power projects

 Monday, July 11,

Government meeting related to environmental clearances for the coal and power projects is schedule on 14th of July.

The meeting is expected to review the performance of key sector like coal and power  and focus on ways to resolve the ongoing tussle between the environment ministry and the minister of coal and power on the controversial issue of green clearances.

The delay in issuing environmental clearance to six coal projects allotted to firms like ADAG, Essar and the Aditya Birla Group for fuelling their thermal power plants is to be discussed in the meeting.

According to an estimate made by planning commission, “the demand-supply gap for coal in the ongoing year, which is also in the terminal year of the current Five-Year Plan, has been assessed at 142 million tones with domestic availability of only 554 million tones against the requirement of 696 million tones.

According to the Planning Commission, the country’s coal shortage is expected to be 200 MT by 2017 against 142 MT by 2012.

Reported by: Neha Soni(neha.soni@steelmint.com)