Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd, the subsidiary of CIL operating in Odisha, has discontinued coal supplies from Bharatpur coal mine for the second consecutive month in Sep’19.
The company has been facing dearth of coal following the landslide mishap at the Bharatpur OCP, and has notified that the mine was not in a position to supply coal by Road mode due to some force majeure situation.
Consequently, FSA customers under Linkage auction having Bharatpur as primary source have been asked to lift the requisite coal volume made available from the secondary sources.
Similar request was also made in the month of Aug’19, wherein MCL had also withdrawn the supply of monthly scheduled quantity for the month of Aug’19, to be made against the bid quantities acquired from Bharatpur mines under various e-auction schemes.
Data provided by MCL indicates that coal stock at Bharatpur mine had fallen 69% M-o-M to 0.483 Lakh Tonne at the end of Jul’19. The company had not yet published the monthly report for Aug’19.
MCL has even trimmed the coal volume offered for monthly spot e-auction by 70%, envisaged during the month of Sep’19. The spot auction for the sale of 0.23 MnT coal is scheduled today, offering coal from only three sources namely-Orient-2, HBI and Hingula.
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