CIL starts buying coal from OCPL’s captive block in Odisha
In a first of its kind, Coal India Limited (CIL) has started buying 6,000 tonnes per day from the Manoharpur captive mine of OCPL, owned by the Odisha government, an official said on Monday. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India, and Odisha Coal and Power Limited (OCPL) have entered into an MoU for provisioning of selling excess fuel from Manoharpur coal block in Jharsuguda to the miner.
The coal will be delivered to MCL at the notifed price, company sources said. Manoharpur block with a production capacity of 8 million tonne per annum was allocated to OCPL in August, 2015 to supply coal to the 1,200 MW IB thermal power plant, owned by Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC).
