State-run Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has expressed displeasure over West Bengal’s land acquisition policy, as it continues efforts to procure around 3,600 acres of land for a coal mining project in Birbhum district.<\/p>\n
According to the policy, a company has to buy land from owners through a market mechanism while the state government only acts as a facilitator in the process, DVC sources said.<\/p>\n
“If the state government had acquired land directly for the Khagra-Joydeb coal block project, we could have avoided the delay in commissioning the mining activities. We are facing several issues to purchase a large tract of land directly from owners,” a senior DVC official told PTI on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
He, however, said the state government has been extending co-operation within the policy framework.<\/p>\n
The captive coal project will help the central public sector undertaking to reduce cost, he said, adding the power producer presently buys the dry fuel from Coal India.<\/p>\n
In FY19, the (power) ‘plant availability loss’ due to lack of coal till December last year was 20 per cent, a DVC document said.<\/p>\n
“We have already appointed Khagra-Joydev Resources Pvt Limited (KJRPL) in 2017 as the mine developer and operator (MDO). We will be able to commence mining activities only when land is acquired,” the official said.<\/p>\n
A meeting between farmers at Loba village and DVC officials was held last week to fix the price, acceptable to both the parties, for the open-cast coal mine project, which was “not successful”, company sources said.<\/p>\n
Of the 5,000-odd landowners, a handful of them had participated in the meeting, they said.<\/p>\n
“DVC had proposed Rs 14 lakh per acre in the meeting but it was rejected by the attendees,” sources said.<\/p>\n
The board of the power utility had already approved an investment of Rs 1,094 crore to develop the Khagra-Joydeb coal block which has an estimated resource of 103 million tonnes.<\/p>\n
In addition to it, DVC has also secured the Tubed coal block in Jharkhand for captive use.<\/p>\n
The Kolkata-headquartered company has an installed capacity of 7,200 MW of thermal and hydel power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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