A Meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee was held on 27,04.2015, for proposed auction of Coal linkages/LoAs through Competitive Bidding, under the Chairmanship of Dr. A.K. Dubey, Additional Secretary (Coal), Ministry of Coal.
Major Highlights:
1. List of Participants
2.Representative of the SBI Capital Markets Ltd and members of the IMC discussed about following points point .
(a) Classification of non-regulated sector into various sub sector
( i) Cement & Aluminum
(ii) Iron & Steel including Sponge Iron
(iii) Others
(b) Assignment of CIL’s incremental production to specific sector
(c) Reason for stagnation in demand of iron & steel were discussed
(d) Member’s discussed assurance of fair competition.
(e) Only 10% of received bids for schedule II & III had satisfied requirements.
(f) Tenure for linkages
(g) Sector wise allocation of CIL production.
3. Mechanism for allotment of coal linkages .
4. Suggestion on administrative unit to look after agreements.
5.Mode of coal off-take .
6.Auction methodology.
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