India pushing for rail building partnerships in coal mining provinces
Indian Railways is pushing for collaboration with coal producers and user companies to build rail connectivity across coal-bearing provinces to unleash potential additional coal production of 300- million tonnes a year.
Officials say that the Railway Ministry has already prepared a presentation for the new Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to push for the building of railway infrastructure in collaboration with coal producers like Coal India Limited (CIL) and consumers like power generator NTPC Limited.
Such a collaboration will aim to build rail connectivity, linking pitheads to port to power plants, and offering greater leverage to raise the $1.6-billion required, the officials say.
CIL, the country’s largest coal producer, accounting for 80% of domestic coal supplies, has long maintained that the absence of rail connectivity in major coal-producing provinces like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha has been a major hindrance to increasing coal production by at least 300-million tonnes a year.
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