Odisha coal Mining: Tamil Nadu power utility to float tender in 2 weeks
Odisha coal Mining: Tamil Nadu power utility to float tender in 2 weeks
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CHENNAI: Within a two-week period, the state's energy supplier, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco), will announce a tender to extract coal from the Chandrabilla coal block in the Angul district of Odisha.
The Chandrabilla coal block had been given to Tamil Nadu by the Union government in 2016. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate Change did not give its approval for the project to proceed in the coal block's forested sections, which prevented it from moving forward.

Three new power plants in Tamil Nadu are almost finished, thus the state needs more coal to feed them. Tangedco is projected to extract one crore tonnes of coal annually from the Chandrabilla coal block.

According to Tangedco, the North Chennai Stage III, Ennore Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and Udangudi coal-fired thermal projects that are now under construction in the state are practically finished and require coal.

Senthil Balaji, the minister of power for Tamil Nadu, recently held a meeting with Tangedco representatives to discuss the Chandrabilla project.

Officials from Tangedco said that a private consultant had just been hired to investigate the project's viability, and that the report they received in the first week of August proposed extracting 1 crore tonnes of coal from the Chandrabilla coal block for the ensuing 35 years.

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