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India's Coal Ministry restrained from taking up stalled project with apex body

28th January 2014

By: Ajoy K Das

Creamer Media Correspondent

  

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KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - India’s Coal Ministry has been restrained from lifting the Comprehensive Environment Pollution Index (CEPI) as it might affect five major coal projects with potential of eight-million tonnes a year production.

The Coal Ministry, on behalf of Coal India Limited, had planned to approach the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI), the apex body headed by the Indian Prime Minister, to seek the lifting of CEPI restrictions on new projects in the northern and central Indian provinces of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, a Ministry official said.

The Ministry maintained that coal production from these projects could be started quickest if CEPI restrictions were lifted, hence the need to approach the CCI, which had the powers to take any decision - even circumventing those taken by various other involved Ministries, including the Forest and Environment Ministry, the official said.

But the Planning Commission has asked the Coal Ministry to refrain from approaching the CCI and, instead, left the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to deliver a verdict on the subject.

The new coal projects were to be linked to three thermal power plants to be constructed by the country’s largest power producer, NTPC Limited, but the investment plan had been opposed and a petition had been filed before the NGT seeking that no mining projects be permitted, as the region had already been declared one of the worst polluted in the country.

The Planning Commission, in a communication to the Coal Ministry, said that a decision by the NGT would take time, as various interested parties involved in the case would have to be heard by the tribunal, but the Ministry should await the decision and only place the issue before the CCI.

Edited by Esmarie Iannucci
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

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