AUCTION of COAL MINES for SALE of COAL Queries & Responses to Standard Tender Document Dated June 18, 2020 Part – IV No

AUCTION OF COAL MINES FOR SALE OF COAL (11th TRANCHE OF AUCTION UNDER THE COAL MINES (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 2015) (1st TRANCHE OF AUCTION UNDER THE MINES AND MINERAL (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATIONS) ACT, 1957)

Queries & Responses to Standard Tender Document dated June 18, 2020

Part – IV

Nominated Authority Ministry of Coal Government of India New Delhi September 21, 2020

Auction of Coal Mines for Sale of Coal – Queries & Responses

A. Queries and Responses to Standard Tender Document dated June 18, 2020

The following clarifications are applicable to the Standard Tender Document dated 18 June, 2020 as well as to i) mine-specific Tender Documents dated 18 June, 2020, under 11th Tranche of auction under the CMSP Act & 1st Tranche of auction under the MMDR Act and ii) mine-specific Tender Documents dated 01 September, 2020, under 1st Tranche of auction under the MMDR Act.

S. No. Query Response 1. Tender Document Clause 1.1.37 Mining Lease As per Applicable Law. Bidders are The execution of mining lease can run into hundreds of Crores and the calculation methodology varies across state requested to assess the mining lease governments. Exact calculation of mining lease is essential for bidders to make informed decisions. expenses as per methodology of State It is requested that exact calculation of mining lease expense be provided for all the coal blocks offered for auction. This Governments. would provide clarity to the bidders on the expected capex for executing mining lease 2. Tender Document Clause 3.2 Tender Document Notice dated September 8, 2020 may A. If we buy a tender document for a coal block and the coal blocks gets removed from the list subsequently. How will be kindly be referred to in this regard. get the refund. If the coal block is removed from the list by MoC, The tender document amount to be refunded to the bidder.

B. As per newspaper report, the following Blocks are being withdrawn from the list of 41 Blocks which were discussed at the pre-bid conference. · Madanpur (N) in Chhattisgarh · Morga (S) in Chhattisgarh · Morga II in Chhattisgarh · Sayang in Chhattisgarh · Fatehpur East Whether Bid security amount would be refunded for the above blocks if Bidder has purchased the tender documents. 3. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (b) Ranking and Qualification As per Clause 3.3.2(b) of the Tender It is therefore suggested that the single technically qualified bidder in the IPO round should also be considered as Document. Qualified bidder and the Auction process for that coal block should not be annulled. A coal block may not be lucrative to other bidders due to location, logistics, commercial angle and other factors and there could be only one bidder interested to bid for the block due to its vicinity to his plant and commercial sense. Considering single bidder will help in developing such coal blocks and help in augmenting country’s output. This will also lessen the burden on CIL.

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S. No. Query Response 4. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount Fixed Amount shall be payable as per A. The fixed amount payable to the prior allottee for surface infrastructure, statutory clearances and land is substantial. Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) of the Tender However, it poses a significant risk to the Successful Bidder in the event such infrastructure or land or approvals are not Document. The Fixed Amount for each in place. Hence, we request you to provide for such eventuality and compensate (refund) the Successful Bidder. Coal Mine has been provided in the Mine Dossier for respective Coal Mine. B. Does the Successful bidder have to pay NPV again wherever the forest land is already acquired and compensation paid It has also been uploaded in the by the prior allottee. Notifications Tab of MSTC Portal.

C. Fixed Cost: Asset wise values required with a clarification whether the given values are depreciated amount or not. In case the values are not depreciated value, then the same shall also be provided. Both for land and Infrastructure costs, in some cases 2 values are given, claimed by prior allottee and as per CMSP Act, which amount will have to be paid by the new allottee?

D. Fixed cost pertaining to value of land and mine infrastructure has been disclosed under the following categories: i) Claims submitted by Prior allottee ii) Value as per CMSP Act and High Court judgement Please clarify as to which amount would be payable by the successful Bidder. Will it be only the amount disclosed under point (ii) above or the cumulative amounts disclosed under point (i) and (ii) above? iii) Is the fixed amount payable if the prior allottee has not submitted any claim? 5. Tender Document Clause 3.6 Site Visits and Information Site visits are being conducted through A. As per the schedule, it is expected that the Technical Round for the Auction of Coal Blocks for sale of coal will take Coal Controllers Organisation. Details place on 18.08.2020. Our members are preparing themselves to submit their bids as per the stipulated timelines. of contact person from the Regional However, the schedule for Mine visit is yet to be declared. As per our conversation with the concerned officer at the office of CCO who would be regional office of CCO for respective mines, due to the threat of COVID’19 pandemic and difference in guidelines and conducting site visits for prospective rules of various state governments, the former are facing difficulties in conducting the mine visit. In absence of physical bidders have been uploaded on the inspection of the mine/block, it will be difficult to undertake technical due diligence & do justice to the process. Hence, it website of MSTC. is requested that a decision regarding the conduction of mine visit is taken at the earliest.

B. Site visit plan for the 3 newly added coal blocks may be provided. Also given the paucity of time left till 29th Sept 2020, is it possible that site visit for the newly added coal blocks would be possible within the timeline?

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C. Where a JV company is applying for a block, number of visitors allowed for site visit should be on the basis of each JV partner 6. Tender Document Clause 3.7 Tender Document Queries and Clarifications The responses to the queries Part II & We have checked the website of serviceprovider MSTC. Since yesterday, the site is flashing a message that Response to III have been uploaded under queries Part II & II has been uploaded at Response to Queries section. But the same has not yet been done. Response to Queries tab on the MSTC portal. 7. Tender Document Clause 3.8 Schedule of the Tender Process The schedule of the auction process A. We request the Coal Ministry and Government of India and of the States to notdelay the auction schedule any further has been uploaded on the MSTC and conduct them as per the amended schedule only. Platform.

B. The coronavirus pandemic has restricted the movement of men and material. Due to this restriction, proper due diligence of the blocks is yet to be completed.

A proper physical site inspection along with due diligence of the offered blocks are essential for devising a proper bid strategy.

Keeping in view of the above, request you to kindly consider extending the bid submission date along with other important deadlines like mine site visits and bid clarification (written queries) deadline by at least 4-6 weeks from the deadlines as per the tender document. 8. Tender Document Clause 3.9 Value of Estimated Geological Reserves and Clause 6 Bid Security Upfront Amount shall be payable as The ratio of Mineable reserves viz-a-viz Geological Reserves in case of OC mines is very different from UG mines. In case per Clause 3.9 of the Tender Document of OC mines, Mineable reserves are about 80% of Geological Reserves, whereas in case of UG mines, it is an opposite and Bid Security shall be submitted in situation and Mineable Reserves are 20% of Geological Reserves. However, the Upfront Amount and Bid Security is based accordance with Clause 6 of the on Geological Reserves for both OC and UG mines. MoEFCC whilst calculating NPV towards forest compensation also Tender Document. charges 50% NPV in case of UG mines as compared to OC mines. Therefore, a proposition may evolve wherein Upfront Amount and Bid Security in case of UG mines is different from OC mines. Since, Mineable Reserves are significantly smaller in UG mines than OC mines, the participants for these mines are smaller players and hefty Upfront Amount and Bid Security may be detrimental to larger participation in UG mines. 9. Tender Document Clause 3.9 Value of Estimated Geological Reserves and Upfront Amount The Upfront Amount shall be payable A. In case of blocks like Chendipada, a fully explored block has been clubbed with Chendipada – I, which is partially in accordance with Clause 3.9 of the explored. Thus is leading to an anomaly where bidder is supposed to pay upfront amount based on resources which have Tender Document.

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S. No. Query Response not yet been fully established through the exploration process.

For partially explored blocks, the upfront payment should be based on Geological Reserves ascertained after exploration is completed. The timeline for payment of first instalment of upfront payment should be after this assessment is over and not within 40 business days of execution of the Agreement; as it currently stands.

B. Upfront money in BG form till production of coal is not started.

C. What will be the course of action by MOC, if the estimated reserve found to be significantly less than the value mentioned in the tender? Bidder will validate and authenticate the documents provided by MOC by reputed organization and if any discrepancy is found, payments must be adjusted accordingly. 10. Tender Document Clause 3.10 Periodic Payments by the Successful Bidder As per Clause 3.10.1 of the Tender Please clarify if the payment is to be made on Despatch of coal or on Production? Document, Monthly Payment shall be payable for the quantity of coal on which statutory royalty is payable during the month. 11. Tender Document Clause 3.10.1 Periodic Payments by the Successful Bidder Yes. However, the value of National We understand that the Value of National Coal Index given in the table in Illustration 2 (i.e. NCI of 105) is as on the same Coal Index provided in the said date as publication of Representative Price. Please confirm illustration is only for the purpose of illustration. 12. Tender Document Clause 3.10.3 Periodic Payments by the Successful Bidder Statutory dues including taxes, levies, A. Is Coal Compensation Cess of Rs 400/t payable to Govt., if the coal is mined and consumed by the same company royalty, contribution to NMET and within the same state. DMF, etc. shall be payable as per Eg.Nuvoco has its cement plants in Chhattisgarh and the coal block Gare Palma IV/7 is also in the state of Chhattisgarh. If Applicable Law. Nuvoco mines the coal from the coal block and uses it for self consumption in its cement plants in Chhattisgarh, is Nuvoco liable to pay Coal Compensation Cess of Rs 400/t to the Govt.

B. We understand that GST Compensation Cess is not applicable in case of captive coal consumption when both mine and Captive power plant are located in same state and under same business entity. Therefore, in case the coal from the list of coal block under auction is utilized for captive consumption, then GST Compensation cess (of INR 400/ tonne) would not be applicable on NALCO. Please confirm

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S. No. Query Response 13. Tender Document Clause 3.12.1 Incentive for Coal Gasification or Coal Liquefaction No. As per Clause 3.12.1 of the Whether this rebate is applicable if the coal is consumed in Plant of bidder/affiliate directly ? (i.e without coal Standard Tender Document, “if the gasification) Successful Bidder consumes the coal produced from the Coal Mine either in its own plant(s) or plant of its holding, Subsidiary Company, Affiliate, Associate Company or sells the coal for Coal Gasification or Coal Liquefaction, a rebate of 20% on Final Offer will be provided on the total quantity of coal consumed or sold or both for Coal Gasification or Coal Liquefaction on an yearly basis.” 14. Tender Document Clause 5.2.1.1 Change in Control or transfer subsequent to determination of Successful Bidder As per Clause 5.2.1.1 of the Tender A. Is it only prior intimation or approval is required? Document.

B. The scope of the word ‘Applicable laws’ is quite broad & not clear in case of change in control and transfer of a coal mine. It is requested that all the applicable laws are provided/mentioned which are applicable in case of change in control and transfer of a mine. This would provide clarity to the clause & provide confidence to the bidders. 15. Tender Document Clause 5.2.1.3(ii) Change in Control and Transfer As per Clause 5.2.1.3 (ii) of the It is not clear under what circumstance will the two phases be applicable. For e.g., what is the trigger for a coal block to Standard Tender Document be considered in the first phase (i.e., one year from the date of issuance of vesting/ allocation order). Clarification is sought on the following:

a) applicability of the two phases for Partially Explored mines b) Can a coal block allottee after incurring 15% of total estimated exploration expense consider the lock-in period to be over while the GR is not completely prepared ? c) In the first phase, what would happen if 15% of estimated exploration expense is not incurred within one year of issuance of vesting/ allocation order – does the lock in period end OR does it end only after 15% expense is incurred irrespective of the duration of time ?

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S. No. Query Response Illustrations may be provided to explain how the above situations would be handled with regard to the definition of “Lock-in period” 16. Tender Document Clause 5.12 Rejection of Bids, Appropriation of Bid Security and Disqualification Please refer to Clause 3.3.2(c) of the If the bidder is successful in Technical Bid and don’t participate in Financial bid what will happen with Bid security? Tender Document. 17. Tender Document Clause 5.14 Termination of the Agreement A & B. As per Clause 26.3.2 of the The following points need to be clarified in detail- Standard Agreement. 1. Prior intimation from Nominated Authority 2. A minimum duration of notice period C. As per Clause 27 of the Standard 3. Scope of arbitration Agreement. 18. Tender Document Clause 6 Bid Security A. As per Clause 1.1.1 of the Tender A. Request you to please provide a list of Approved Banks for Bank Guarantee. Also confirm where to submit a physical Document, “Acceptable Bank” shall copy of bank guarantee and when? mean a Scheduled Bank as listed in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank B. In case a JV Company is participating in the auction, can each JV partner submit separate bank guarantee in ratio of of India Act, 1934 excluding Gramin their respective shareholding? Banks, Urban Co-operative Banks and State Co-operative Banks. C. Please confirm that the one of the subsidiaries of the bidder or third party can provide the bank guarantee on behalf of the bidder. As per Annexure III 3(ii) of the Tender Document, the Bid Security, Power of Attorney, Certified extract of the charter documents and certified true copy of the documents such as a board or shareholders resolution authorizing the execution of this power of attorney and affidavit shall be submitted at the following address: The Nominated Authority Ministry of Coal Room No. 120, F-Wing, 1st Floor, Shastri Bhawan New Delhi - 110001 Bidders can submit the bid through

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S. No. Query Response various postal methods as well. However, the bid should be received at the abovementioned address before the Bid Due Date.

B & C. As per Clause 6 of the Standard Tender Document, the Bidder shall have to furnish the Bid Security as part of its Technical Bid. 19. Tender Document Clause 7.1 Performance Security A. Performance Security shall be A. The changes in PBG shall happen post production of coal, not prior to that. Along with this, difference of PBG shall be submitted as per Clause 7.1 of the submitted. Illustration: If PBG is Rs.50cr currently. It shall be submitted in 2-4 parts of 50% to 25% each. If additional BG Tender Document. of Rs.3cr is required, then additional BG of Rs.3cr will be submitted inserted of Rs.53cr new BG. B. Please refer to Corrigendum No 3 to B. To provide the same, interim requirement of same value PBG will be needed from Bank just for inter change from the Tender Document in this regard. Central to State, hence PBG shall be taken for both Beneficiary Central as well as State Government so it can be transferred to State post start of coal production without any additional cost towards procuring fresh BG. C. As per Clause 3.3.2 (h) of the Tender Document. C. What is time from execution of agreement to submission of Performance BG? D. The royalty payable shall be as per D. In performance security calculation one year royalty have been calculated based on Notional Price. So, after auction extant gazette notification on royalty Royalty will be paid on Notional Price or Invoice (excluding Royalty, DMF, NMET, Taxes etc as per MoC Notice 2012) or of coal. Notified Price? 20. Tender Document Clause 9.3 Revision in Mining Plan upon allocation As per Clause 9.3 of the Tender A. Can mining plan be changed for production level lower than what it has been approved for? Document, upon allocation of the Coal Mine, the Mining Plan may be revised B. The Mining Plans for 33 Blocks covered by CM (SP) Act date back to close to 10-15 years. The future coal scenario at by the Successful Bidder, in accordance that time was different and in a way coal was projected as the main stay of Commercial Energy architecture in India for with the Guidelines for Preparation, long time. In that scenario even Underground Mining if efficient would be financially viable. Formulation, Submission, Processing, In large number of cases where part production has been planned in the approved Mining Plans to come from U/G Scrutiny, Approval and Revision of Mining, this part of production as far as possible should be replaced for achieving lower cost coal by O/C Mining even if Mining plan for the coal and lignite the stripping ratio goes little higher. blocks issued vide Office

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S. No. Query Response Memorandum F. No. 34011/28/2019- Now that Coal has limited life and even in India it will not be the main fuel for power generation after about 30 years, it is CPAM dated May 29, 2020, as may be necessary that only economically viable operations are carried out so that Coal is produced economically and higher coal amended. prices do not add to the power cost. We seek your guidance if the amendment in Mining Plans keeping the total production unchanged with greater contribution from O/C Mining and reduced production from U/G Mining will be receiving your favourable consideration. 21. Tender Document Clause 9.3 Revision in Mining Plan upon allocation As per Clause 3.9 of the Tender In case of revision of Mining Plan vis-à-vis increase in coal reserves or the Peak rated capacity, we understand that the Document, Upfront Amount is additional reserves will stand vested in the name of successful bidder and no extra payment (upfront amount/ fixed calculated on the basis of Value of amount etc) would be required to be made by successful bidder. Estimated Geological Reserves. So However, the revenue share as per Final offer would continue to be payable. Please confirm Upfront Amount would not change in the given scenario of increase in extractable reserves or Peak Rated Capacity.The Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h)(ii) of the Tender Document. Performance Security would be revised in accordance with Clause 7.1.3 of the Tender Document. Monthly Payments shall be payable as per Clause 3.10 of the Tender Document. 22. Tender Document Clause 9.4.2 Revenue payable to the Government in case of shortfall in coal production As per Clause 9.4.2.1 of the Tender A. If coal production is less than 75% of capacity for more than 3 yrs what will happen with the mine or penalty? For Document, in case of shortfall in the Schedule – II coal blocks, operation to be started within 9 months from the signing of agreement and with the quantity on annual basis, the revenue circumstantial constrain, if the production can’t be done at 75% level within 3 yrs then what will happen to mines. for the shortfall quantity shall be paid annually. As per Clause 9.4.2.2 of the Tender Document, in case of shortfall in the quantity on 3 financial year block basis, the revenue for the shortfall quantity shall be paid at the end of 3 financial year block. 23. Tender Document Clause 9.5.1 Relinquishment of Partially Explored Mine A. As per Clause 9.5.1 of the Tender

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S. No. Query Response A. Kindly clarify what would be the manner in which the Central Government would assess the prospecting operations for Document, the Successful Bidder has completeness to complete the prospecting operations as per the Mandatory Work B. Please confirm that after completion of the mandatory work program for the partial explored mines the successful Program and preparing the Geological bidder may surrender the part of the block which is not feasible for mining and commence of the mining activity in the Report as per Mineral Concession remaining part. Rules, 1960 (as amended by Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules, 2020.

B. As per Clause 9.5.1 (i) of the Tender Document, relinquishment of a part of the Partially Explored Mine shall not be permitted. 24. Tender Document Clause 9.5.2 Relinquishment of Partially Explored Mine As per Clause 9.5.2 of the Tender In case the said mines are auctioned again, the cost incurred on basis of actuals must be reimbursed. Document. 25. Tender Document Annexure III 3.A.(iii)(b) Opening of Initial Offer As per Annexure III of the Tender The intimation should be sent at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled start of e-auction. Document, the Qualified Bidders shall be intimated about their qualification for participation in electronic auction through notification on MSTC website within their secured login as well as a system generated email. Such intimation shall be sent 2 hours prior to the scheduled start of e-auction. 26. Tender Document Annexure III 3.B Digital Signature Certificate As per Annexure III of the Tender We suggest that bidder must be allowed to map at least 2 DSCs to the login id, to provide for any exigency. Document, only 1 (one) user id will be mapped with a given DSC for the Authorised Signatory. However, in the event of a change in the Authorised Signatory, Bidders may contact MSTC for updating the mapped DSC on MSTC Portal. 27. Tender Document Annexure V Power of Attorney for Signing the Bid As per Annexure V of the Tender

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S. No. Query Response The said format may be suitably modified. Document, the Power of Attorney We would like to submit that we have mapped the Digital Signature of the Director to register in the MSTC portal for holder who is authorised to sign bid participation in auction and tender documents are being purchased. Hence we submit that POA/Board Authorization documents and all other such acts, should be allowed to be issued in the name of the Director whose DSC has been mapped instead of a permanent deeds and things as are necessary or employee. required in connection with or We would also like to clarify whether DSC holder and POA holder can be different or both has to be same person. incidental to submission of bid shall be an employee of the Bidder. The DSC and Power of Attorney should be in the name of Authorised Signatory of the Bidder. 28. Capital Investment: Fixed Amount shall be assessed in A. Written down value is as on 31.03.2014. When the mine will be allocated now in 2020, will there be a joint re- accordance with Applicable Laws and evaluation under the observation of the Coal Controller or the Nominated Authority? What is the procedure of re- shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h) evaluation of the capital investment in 2020. of the Tender Document.

B. Will the successful bidder get an option to deny paying for an asset which is not in useable condition or if the new allocatee does not need it. 29. Clearances: The conduct of mining operations at For the blocks where states such as Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have raised objections (due to high conservation zones, the Coal Mine shall be subject to the reserve forests, elephant corridor, etc.) and Nominated Authority has still not withdrawn these coal blocks, it is likely that Efficiency Parameters and other there will be challenges in procuring the mine development clearances in such cases. In case of delays by the State provisions in the Agreement. Government in providing approvals, will the Nominated Authority refund the payments made like Upfront Payment etc.) for these blocks and no penalty shall be applicable in such cases. 30. Clearances: A-C. Upon issuance of Vesting Order A. We are being given to understand that validity of Forestry Clearance as well as Environment Clearance would have for Coal Mines being auctioned under expired after the validity period mentioned in the relevant approval letters is over. In that case even for the 33 Blocks the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory allotted under CM (SP) Act for which Forestry Clearance/ EC had been given, will have to apply for fresh Clearances and it licences, permits, permissions, will be almost impossible for operations in any of these Blocks getting started well ahead of schedule for qualifying for approvals or consents obtained by the Incentive payment. Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall We would submit that consideration may be given for issue of executive orders so that these clearances will continue to vest in the Successful Bidder. The have validity unless the winner of the Block in the proposed auction goes for drastic changes in Mining method which will Successful Bidder shall be required to change its impact on Environment and also the Forest area to be diverted. follow due procedure for transfer/

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S. No. Query Response obtaining of the same. The Successful B. In some cases, the Prior Allottee had progressed up to the point of getting this First Stage Clearance but before he Bidder shall be responsible for could comply with the conditions stipulated there in for getting the Stage Two Clearance, the allocation of the Block got obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in cancelled. accordance with Applicable Law. The We would submit that the new Allottee may be permitted to take off from the stage where the Prior Allottee left. format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded shortly. C. Whether Successful Bidder has to make new application and complete all the formalities which have already been carried out by the prior allottee. D-E. The conduct of mining operations at the Coal Mine shall be subject to the D. It is our experience that after allocation of coal block, there are instances that the statutory clearances, Land status, Efficiency Parameters and other Legal issues on land acquired by prior allottee, issues in possession over the acquired land, revelation of additional forest provisions in the Agreement. In bona land etc occurs. This leads to delay in development of coal block. In case of change in land status like Forest land etc leads fide cases of delays not attributable to to delay in the development of the coal block. the Successful Bidder, the Nominated In such instances as narrated above, how much relaxation or extension in timeline will be granted by MOC for Authority will decide on case to case development of coal block? basis the extension of timeline in Efficiency Parameters. For the said E. Time line for completion of statutory Clearances: In case of failing timelines due to non -cooperation of State Govt. or purpose, the Nominated Authority any other govt. agencies, it should be the responsibility of MOC, Govt. of India to get the pending clearances and may refer the matter to Scrutiny handover to allottee. committee which will consider the delay caused on case to case basis and furnish its recommendation to the Nominated Authority for taking a decision. All statutory clearances/ consents/ approvals shall be obtained by the Successful Bidder in accordance with Applicable Law. 31. Coal Evacuation: The evacuation infrastructure shall be A. Practically the entire future increase in coal production whether by Coal India Ltd or Captive Sector or Commercial the responsibility of the Successful Mining Sector will be obtained from the following Coalfields: Bidder. However, the Govt. of India is · HasdeoArand Coalfield in Chhattisgarh also committed to development of · Talcher Coalfield in Odisha coal sector infrastructure. The

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S. No. Query Response · North Karanpura Coalfield in Jharkhand Government is taking many initiatives This will also be borne out from the fact that out of 225 mill tons of annual production expected from these 41 Blocks: to augment coal evacuation · 105 mill tons will come from Talcher Coalfield infrastructure including new railway · 25 mill tons will come from North Karanpura and lines and presently undertaking studies · 25 mill tons will come from HasdeoArand of Chhatisgarh to enhance the evacuation As the situation stands, bulk of the additional requirement of coal will be in Western India and Southern India. On the infrastructure. other hand, most of our coal deposits are located in Eastern India and Central India. Naturally, large tonnages of coal will have to be moved from the mines to the consumption centres and Rail would be the only way for doing so in an economical and environment friendly manner. Unfortunately, whereas no Rail infrastructure is available in HasdeoArand Coalfield that in Talcher Coalfield and North Karanpura Coalfield is already heavily over- stretched. In fact even Coal India’s programme for additional production depends on North Karanpura and Talcher Coalfields. We are aware of the fact that development of Rail infrastructure in Coalfield areas is receiving close attention from the Government. The expectations from Commercial Mining Sector can however only be full filled if such improvement in Talcher and North Karanpura Coalfield is completed within 5-6 years and the proposed Gevra –Pendra Road Rail link is also completed within that time frame. We would request that this matter may kindly be closely examined and appropriate action be taken for strengthening the Rail infrastructure within next 5-6 years so that it can take additional load of Coal India as well as Commercial Mining Sector.

B. For high PRC blocks, MoC must firmly take up with railways to initiate laying of tracks on war footing basis so that when blocks are ready for production, successful bidders are not required to restrict production waiting for evacuation route to be ready.

C. What kind of infrastructure investment can the bidders expect by the Government to develop coal evacuation infrastructure? 32. Coal Quality: Documents and information as In one of the properties, there has been reported occurrence of Semi Coking coal, however, detailed concluding study in submitted by the prior allottee have this regard has not been provided as in the report it has been mentioned many pending reports which were not supplied. been provided in the mine dossier. Such amendments must be included in these reports to have clarity and transparency. CMPDI should make available such information to the potential bidder. All relevant details for the coal quality and quantity is required for the bidders to estimate their revenue, participate in

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S. No. Query Response the auction process and quote their price offerings. 33. Details of Coal Blocks: Documents as provided by the prior Further to avoid any litigation, all the latest plans/ revised plans/ returns submitted/ routine data including production allottee have already been uploaded in data submitted to Coal Controller should be made available in the data room (paid section). the Mine Dossier. 34. Financing: The sectors under infrastructure State Bank has mentioned during the last meeting (dated 25th August 2020) on Stakeholders Consultation on addressing lending shall be as per applicable laws. financing perspective that "Coal Mining is NOT considered under Infrastructure Status" and it should be included under Presently, the Harmonised Master List infrastructure status. of Infrastructure Sub-sectors is as per Gazette Notification F.No. 13/1/2017- We request the Nominated Authority to kindly clarify the status of Coal Mining at the earliest. INF dated August 24, 2020 as issued by Department of Economic Affairs. 35. Forest Land: All statutory clearances/ consents/ i) Can the successful bidder carry out mining operations on non-forest land without obtaining Forest clearance for the approvals shall be obtained by the forest land? For example, if the total land area is 100 acres out of which 50 acres is non-forest area and the balance is Successful Bidder in accordance with forest area. Can we carry out mining operation on 50 acres of non-forest land? Applicable Law. ii) Can we apply for forest clearance for partial land? iii) Whether the bidder would have to pay NPV for the total forest area or only for the part which the bidder would be using for mining? iv) Whether the bidder will also have to pay for already deforested area? 36. Grade Declaration: Grade Declaration of the Coal Mines Please clarify the process of grade declaration for such commercial mines, and if the same will continue to be overseen shall be as per Applicable Law. by the Coal Controller or State Government. 37. Grade of Coal: The payments shall be as per the What will be the course of action by MOC, if the declared grade found to be lower than that mentioned in the tender? provisions of the Tender Document. Bidder will validate and authenticate the documents provided by MOC by reputed organization and if any discrepancy is It may be noted that the Mine Dossier found, payments must be adjusted accordingly. Request MOC to mention the procedure for that. of the Coal Mine is being provided only as a preliminary reference document to the prospective Bidders, who are expected to carry out their own surveys, investigations and other detailed examination of the Coal Mine before submitting their Bids. Nothing

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S. No. Query Response contained in the Mine Dossier shall be binding on the Nominated Authority nor confer any right on the Bidders, and the Nominated Authority shall have no liability whatsoever in relation to or arising out of any or all contents of the Mine Dossier. 38. Mining Lease: A-C. Upon issuance of Vesting Order A. Whether Mining Lease would be first sanctioned in favour of the prior allottee and then would be transferred in the for Coal Mines being auctioned under name of Successful Bidder. the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory licences, permits, permissions, B. Whether Successful Bidder has to make fresh application for grant of Mining Lease and complete all those formalities approvals or consents obtained by the which have already been carried out by the prior applicant. Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The C. Fresh application filed would be directly forwarded to the Central Govt. for approval as all the required formalities Successful Bidder shall be required to have already been complied by the prior Allottee. Whether NOCs issued to prior applicant can be used by the Successful follow due procedure for transfer of Bidder if new application is required to be filed. the same. The Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ D. Please clarify if the validity of mining lease is the same under both the Acts i.e. 30 years. approvals etc. in accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded shortly.

D. Mining lease shall be granted as per the provisions of MMDR Act, 1957. The initial period of mining lease shall be 20-30 years which may be extended one time by another 0-20 years. 39. National Coal Index: NCI shall be as per the following OM:. A. We understand that the calculation of NCI does not take into account the actual price of coal at which the commercial -Roll out of National Coal Index - OM miners would be selling their coal. As of now, the NCI takes into account only the CIL notified, Auction coal price and No. NA-102/3/2017-NA dated June 4, imported coal price. Therefore, we request the concerned authority to please incorporate the actual sale price of coal 2020 from private and other government commercial mines as well. -Operational Methodology for

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S. No. Query Response In case the commercial miners are selling their coal at a lower rate to the CIL notified price, auction coal price and Computation of National Coal Index - imported coal price, then, the commercial miners would still have to pay the revenue share and royalty at higher F. No. 102/3/2017/NA dated June 17, Notional Price. 2020 40. Notice for amendment in the list of coal mines, dated, 1st September 2020: The details have been provided in the Request Nominated Authority to provide Peak rated capacity, upfront payment, BG amount and fixed amount of mine dossiers of respective coal blocks. Dolesara, Jarekela and Jharpalam-Tangarghat coal blocks 41. PAPs: Documents as provided by the prior The project affected persons (PAPs) mentioned in the mine dossier are decades old data and far away from the real allottee have already been uploaded in picture on the ground. Requesting you to update the same in consultation with the State Government to have a real the Mine Dossier. Bidders may carry picture. out their own assessment for PAPs. 42. Reserves: The Geological Reserves as provided in In some of the blocks it is apparent that a good portion of coal has been illegally taken out and probably it is also in the the Tender Documents is as per the knowledge of the authorities. To make the blocks more reasonable for the investors, it is requested that the respective Geological Report. authorities do an assessment of such illegally mined coal and reduce it from the reserves. 43. Royalty: The royalty payable shall be as per Please clarify in case of washery established within the mining lease area, royalty shall be applicable on the output grade extant gazette notification on royalty and output quantity/despatch only of coal. 44. R&R: Documents and information as A. In the Mine Summary, there are certain household and PAF’s declared in the details of a particular mine submitted by the prior allottee have 1. What is the basis of these information’s? been provided in the mine dossier. 2. Has the prior allottee done the SIA, Social Impact Assessment survey? Mine dossier is only for reference, 3. What if such data increases considerably leading to increased cost or difficulty in mining, whether MOC will grant bidder is required to carry out its relaxation in quoted bidding amount? detailed due diligence B. Clear guidelines stating the extent of government support for R&R to are required 45. State Government: The Successful Bidder shall be Recently many litigation issues arose in few states on the land notified under Scheduled Land by the State governments responsible for undertaking land and where PESA Act/ Tribal Land is applicable and state consent is required. Please provide details of the state consent if acquisition and obtaining clearance/ available/ to be taken from the state governments. Clarity at this stage will avoid any investments getting stuck approvals etc. in accordance with eventually during the land acquisition phase. Applicable Law. 46. Stripping Ratio: Stripping Ratio can only be ascertained For blocks where Approved Mine Plan is not available, MOC should mention tentative Stripping ratios and extractable after preparation of Project Report / reserves in Coal Block Summary based on data available with CMPDI. Mining Plan.

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S. No. Query Response 47. Upfront amount, estimated exploration expense, bid security & fixed amount, dated 27th August 2020: Yes. Fixed Amount shall be payable as In the table, “NIL” appears at several places under Fixed Amount. Does “NIL” imply ZERO? per Clause 3.3.2(h) of the Tender Document.

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B. Mine Specific Queries and Responses

S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 1 Radhikapur West 1. In Radhikapur West coal block, the prior allottee has 1& 3. The Fixed Amount (for land) is based on the available information and the made payment of Rs. 21.30 Crores to IDCO towards Land assessment made by the Competent Authority and is subject to final settlement. Acquisition. However, no land has been acquired till date. Any upward revision in the Fixed Amount on a subsequent date by the Kindly clarify whether this amount would be a part of Fixed Government or the Nominated Authority consequent upon any process or on the Payment to be payable by Successful Bidder (SB)? It is to orders of any competent court of law, shall also be payable by the Successful be noted that payment details of above land have not Bidder. Additionally, in case of any downward revision in the Fixed Amount on a been included in list of Fixed Amount provided by MoC subsequent date by the Government or the Nominated Authority, the same would dated 3rd July on MSTC site. be refunded by the Nominated Authority to the Successful Bidder.

2. Mining Lease: 2. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Please provide the application for Mining Lease applied by provided in the mine dossier. the Prior Allottee dated 08.10.2010 4. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been provided in the mine dossier. 3. Land Acquisition: A. As per copy of the Land Acquisition Details with regard 5A. Upon issuance of Vesting Order for Coal Mines being auctioned under the to Radhikapur East Coal Block as provided by the Prior CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory licences, permits, permissions, approvals or Allottee, process of payment of compensation is consents obtained by the Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the incomplete as only 46.07% and 11.2% compensation has Successful Bidder. The Successful Bidder shall be required to follow due been paid with regard to 60.5355 Ha and 164.8394 Ha of procedure for transfer of the same. The Successful Bidder shall be responsible for Private land in Jhintipal Jungle Phase-I and Jhintipal Phase obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in accordance with Applicable Law. The – I, respectively for total area of 225.3749 Ha of private format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded shortly. land. Status of Compensation Amount paid cannot be 5B.Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been ascertained. provided in the mine dossier. As per information provided it appears that out of Rs.30,50,55,619.00, prior allottee has deposited As per information submitted by the prior allottee, Forest Clearance file for Rs.8,16,42,603.00 vide letter No.2078/LA Dt.28/10/2011, Stage-I clearance is with MoEF, New Delhi. however no supporting document has been provided. Please provide the same

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No.

4. R&R: Total number of PAFs – 1664 as per EAC Report and R&R policy submitted by prior allottee whereas PAF – 384 as per the Minutes of 13th Advisory Committee meeting. Please clarify the total no. of PAFs in the block and provide R&R plan 5.Clearances:

A. CTE mentions coal washery setup by bidder and its compliances to be followed. However, if the Successful Bidder does not intend to setup a washery, since MoEF&CC has notified that coal washing is no more mandatory, we understand that the Successful Bidder be does not require to fulfil compliances regarding coal washery. Moreover, Successful Bidder shall be allowed for grant of EC and renewal of all previous clearances without setting up of washery also.

Also please clarify that the CTE obtained by Prior Allottee would be valid for Successful Bidder or it has to initiate process to obtain CTE afresh.

Coal washing is no more mandatory as notified by MoEF&CC. To be competitive in the market, Successful Bidder might adopt the new norms of doing away with mandatory washing and spend a huge capital on such irrelevant infrastructure. Hence, Successful Bidder shall be allowed for grant of EC and renewal of all previous clearances without setting up of washery also.

B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance and the

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. progress made regarding obtaining of FC Stage-1.

2 Radhikapur East 1. Map: 1. Referred enclosure 4N under Annexure-II is a letter from CGWA and not a map. Map of the coal block is by the Prior Allottee with the enclosure 4N to the Annexure II is very compressed 2: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been version and is illegible. Please provide the high quality map provided in the mine dossier. available with the Prior Allottee which is clear and legible 3A& B. Approval of Mining Plan shall be in accordance with Applicable Laws. Only 2. Mining Lease: approved Mining Plan was submitted by the prior allottee, which has been A. Please provide the application for Mining Lease applied provided in the mine dossier. by the Prior Allottee. 4. The Fixed Amount (for land) is based on the available information and the B. Make us available the copy of the ML application along assessment made by the Competent Authority and is subject to final settlement. with all enclosures, NOCs and maps submitted to the Govt. Any upward revision in the Fixed Amount on a subsequent date by the of Odisha. Government or the Nominated Authority consequent upon any process or on the orders of any competent court of law, shall also be payable by the Successful 3. Mining Plan: Bidder. Additionally, in case of any downward revision in the Fixed Amount on a A. The Mining Plan for Radhikapur East (including Utkal- F) subsequent date by the Government or the Nominated Authority, the same would coal block mining plan submitted on 30th August 2007 and be refunded by the Nominated Authority to the Successful Bidder. was approved by MoC vide letter dated 3rd April 2008. The Revised Mining Plan and Mine Closure Plan has been 5A, B & D: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have submitted to MoC for its approval in October 2011. MoC been provided in the mine dossier. since then has communicated its observations dated 13.06.2013, 12.02.2013, 10.05.2013 and 16.08.2013, 5C: Status of land acquisition for R&R has been submitted by the prior allottee which were complied in revised mining plan by the prior under the Annexure-II and other associated documents in the mine dossier. allottee and also submitted to MoC, however approval of the same is pending from MoC. We understand that MoC 6: Proposal for diversion of forest land forwarded by Forest & Environment Dept., shall approve the Mining Plan last submitted by Prior Govt. of Odisha to MoEF in March 2014 (Refer Annexure 4L submitted by prior Allottee for Successful Bidder upon allocation of the mine allottee). Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have post auction.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. Also please provide the revised Mining Plan submitted by been provided in the mine dossier. Prior Allottee for approval 7. Utkal-F is a part of Radhikapur East. B. S. No. 1 in Enclosure 3 states that the revised Mining Plan and Mine Closure Plan submitted to MoC in Oct. 2011 8. Topographic map in autocad is already available in the GR 2011. and Final Revised Mining Plan and Mine Closure Plan have not been received till date. It is requested to make 9. Details and status of R&R (Incl. PDF) are available under Annexure-II submitted available the copy of Revised Mining Plan and Mine by the prior allottee in the mine dossier. Closure Plan. Also, inform the changes made in Revised Mining Plan and 10 & 11. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have Mine Closure Plan submitted to MoC for approval. Also, been provided in the mine dossier. Mine Closure Plan has not been provided which is very important document. 12A & B: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been provided in the mine dossier. 4. Land Acquisition: As per copy of the Land Acquisition Details with regard to 12C – 12J. Upon issuance of Vesting Order for Coal Mines being auctioned under Radhikapur East Coal Block as provided by the Prior the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory licences, permits, permissions, approvals or Allottee, process of payment of compensation is consents obtained by the Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the incomplete as only 46.07% and 11.2% compensation has Successful Bidder. The Successful Bidder shall be required to follow due been paid with regard to 60.5355 Ha and 164.8394 Ha of procedure for transfer of the same. The Successful Bidder shall be responsible for Private land in Jhintipal Jungle Phase-I and Jhintipal Phase obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in accordance with Applicable Law. The – I, respectively for total area of 225.3749 Ha of private format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded shortly. land. Status of Compensation Amount paid cannot be 12K-12L: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have ascertained. been provided in the mine dossier. As per information provided it appears that out of Rs.30,50,55,619.00, prior allottee has deposited 13. The evacuation infrastructure shall be the responsibility of the successful Rs.8,16,42,603.00 vide letter No.2078/LA Dt.28/10/2011, bidder. However, the Govt. of India is also committed to development of coal however no supporting document has been provided. sector infrastructure. The Government is taking many initiatives to augment coal Please provide the same evacuation infrastructure including new railway lines and presently undertaking studies to enhance the evacuation infrastructure.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 5. R&R: 14: As per the proposal for FC, forest land of 230.0899 ha includes safety zone of A. As per information provided in Annexure-II by Prior 14.1709 ha. The CA land has been estimated against the forest land involved in Allottee and documents in the enclosure, only cover page mining i.e. 215.919 ha (Refer Annexure-4L submitted by the prior allottee). of approved R&R master plan has been given by the Prior Bidder shall have to follow due procedure for transfer of CA land. Allottee. R&R Master plan has not been provided by the Prior Allottee, please provide the same 15A-15C, 17. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and B. It is requested to make us available the approved interest for the mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Master Plan of R & R Colony. Vesting Order for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory licences, permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the C. Also please inform the status of the implementation of Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful the R & R Plan till date. Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in D. Sanction of estimate and permission for execution of accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded lines for power supply to 950 KVA load for R & R Colony. shortly. Request to please share the status of the same as on date. Letter no. 274 dated 24.9.2011 has been provided. Central 15D: Figure indicated in the Mine Summary is approximate forest cover based on Electricity Supply Utility of Odisha has accorded the FSI forest cover map of the coalfield and not the forest land involved. permission 16: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been 6. Please mention the status of Forest Clearance Stage-1 provided in the mine dossier.However, the shape file and boundary coordinates in WGS 84 have also been provided in the mine summary. 7. Mine Plan:In mine plan executive summary its mentioned as mine plan for Radhikapur east (Including Utkal F) , Pls clarify whether Utkal F is also part of 18. Refer Note No. 3 of the Mine Summary for clarification. Radhikapur East ? 19. Bounding coordinates and cardinal points of the block is based on shape file 8. Kindly provide AutoCAD Drawing of Surface Master Plan on WGS84 coordinate system. Refer Note No. 3 of the mine summary. with contour drawings if available.

9. Please provide PDF numbers for which R & R colony to be provided. Also provide approved R & R plan for the

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. same which shall Cleary indicate plot size, dwelling unit size, common facility requirement etc. Also provide work done and infrastructure created by previous allotted for R & R colony.

10. Please provide details of work done in for following infrastructure by previous allotted:-

- Township, Nala diversion, Road diversion, Service buildings (admin building, canteen etc.,)at mine site, HEMM workshops, wash bays, etc at mine site, Contour Survey & Geotechnical Investigation etc.,

Provide details (i.e. drawings, reports etc.,) of all existing infrastructure at mine site

11. Project Related Studies:

A. Please provide project related studies, if any, such as hydrogeology report, etc.

B. Please arrange to provide copy of Water Infrastructure Study Report, Power Infrastructure Study Report, Hydrological Study Report and Washability Study Report. Please provide the copy of Socio – Economic Survey Report.

12. Clearances: A. It has been stated that Diversion Proposal has been forwarded by the Govt. of Odisha to toMoEF& CC on 3rd March, 2014. Please arrange to provide us the copy of the application along with maps and other enclosures and

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. NOCs.

B. Diversion proposal sent to MoEF by the Govt. of Odisha - Enclosures such as site inspection reports, map etc. have not been provided. Request to please provide copy of the complete set of the proposal forwarded to MOEF.

C. Whether the recommendation letter of MoEF dated 8th June, 2012 is still valid? If not, then the successful Bidder has to re – apply for the same area for grant of EC and obtain NOCs, TOR including Public Consultation for the same area or earlier issued NOCs can be used with the new application?

D. Fresh application filed would be directly forwarded to the Central Govt. for approval as all the required formalities have already been complied by the prior Allottee.

E. Is it mandatory for the Successful Bidder to set up washery of 5 MTPA as the recommendation is for EC for 5 MTPA OCP and washery?

F. Whether Successful Bidder has to apply fresh if he does not intend to set up washery or proposes to set a washer of different capacity?

G. Approval from CGWB for using ground water. The permission is valid for 5 years. Please let us know the validity of the permission as on date.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. H. Validity of the recommendation of using 2.0 cusec of surface water from SinghadaJhor.

I. Validity of the permission of OPTCL for drawing 33 KV power from Angul Substation. Development made till date in drawing of power from 33 KV power from Angul Substation.

J. Permission for 33 KV Power Supply - Permission has been accorded for power supply connectivity from Angul by Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited. Please share what progress has been made in this regard. Validity of the permission as on date because the validity of the permission is for 60 days from the date of issue of letter. Also, the letter does not bear either reference no. or date of issue.

K. Approval of Site Specific Wild Life Conservation Plan - It is requested to provide copy of the approved Site Specific Wild Life Conservation Plan.Whether this approved Site specific Wildlife conservation shall be vested to new Allottee?

L. Approval for conducting survey for Railway Siding - Copy of the approval letter dated 11.02.2009 has been provided. Please share if any progress has been made in the matter. Report prepared if any, may be shared.

13. Coal Evacuation: Govt. of Odisha has planned a common Rail Corridor for

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. evacuation of coal extracted from various mines. The proposed corridor will just below the southern part of the leasehold area. Please share the status of the proposed Rail corridor as on date. Proposed location of the railway track from the Coal Block.

14. Compensatory Afforestation: Forest land in ML area is 230.0899 while land identified for compensatory afforestation is 216.8674 Ha. Whether same identified land for compensatory afforestation would be allotted to the Successful Bidder? Even certificate given for suitability of land for compensatory afforestation is for 216.8675 Ha. Discrepancy in forest land exists in ML area and government land identified for carry out compensatory afforestation.

15. Land: A. Please clarify the course of action to be taken where disbursement of compensation has been made but lease has not been executed for 24.8055 Ha land. Please clarify whether lease deed can be executed with the Successful Bidder if the payment made by the previous allottee is reimbursed by the Successful Bidder? Disbursement of compensation has been made but the lease deed has not been executed with the previous allottee.

B. Disbursement of compensation of 225.3749 is said to be under process. Can lease deed of 225.3749 Ha land be executed with the Successful Bidder if the amount is reimbursed to the prior allottee?

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. C. 139.2691 Ha of government land is under alienation. Whether this area would be sanctioned in favour of prior allottee and then same would be transferred in favour of successful bidder or Successful Bidder has to make fresh application for getting the government land sanctioned in his favour? Part of the government land has been sanctioned in favour of prior allottee and part of the government land is under alienation.

D. As per Mining Plan, forest land is calculated as 21% of the total lease area. While as per block summary, forest land is 5% of the total lease area. We request Nominated Authority to please clarify the reason and rectify the difference in opinion published in both the referred documents.

16. DGPS Map: The map provided is illegible. It is requested to provided legible map.

17. Land Acquisition: An area of 48.783 Ha in village Phujhari has been approved for construction of R & R Colony. Dept. of Steel and Mines, Govt. of Odisha gave administrative approval to IDCO for for acquisition of private vide its letter no. 3387 dated 23.5.2009. So far, 48.427 Ha of land has been acquired and 0.356 Ha land is pending. Whether the land acquired would be transferred to Successful Bidder? If yes, what would be the procedure? What would be the process of acquisition of balance land?

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No.

18. Area: The Mine lease area as per Mining Plan is 1029.925 Ha.Mine lease area as per block summary uploaded on MSTC portal is 1016 Ha. We request the Nominated Authority to please clarify the reason and rectify the difference between figures.

19. Block Coordinates: Coordinate of block as per Mining Plan: Latitude 20° 57' 12" N - 20° 59' 39" N Longitude 84° 53' 25" E - 84° 55' 49" E

Coordinate of block as per block summary: Latitude 20° 57' 32" N - 20° 59' 35" N (Provisional) Longitude 84° 53' 15" E - 84° 55' 46" E (Provisional)

We request the Nominated Authority to please clarify the reason and rectify the difference between figures.

3 Urtan 1. Geological Report: 1. A freshly scanned resource information table has been uploaded on MSTC Page 14 of 235 Table-(v)(Contd). Requesting the Portal. Nominated Authority to share this table as this table is not readable 2. As the GR for Urtan was submitted by MECL in the year 1994, the drill cores are not available. 2. Technical Details: Can we get some drill core of for further analysis 3. Bidder is required to carry out its own due diligence.

3. Please provide details of PAF's / PAPs in the area

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 4 Urtan North 1. Geological Report: 1. The text part of the Geological Report is already provided in the mine dossier. For geological report, only plates are provided, and text part is missing. Text part may please be provided for 2. As the GR for Urtan North was submitted by MECL in the year 1998, the drill proper assessment of the block cores are not available.

2. Technical Details: 3. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Can we get some drill core of for further analysis provided in the mine dossier.

3. R&R: 4A. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and interest for Elaboration on present Status of R&R count. the mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Vesting Order for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory 4. Clearances: licences, permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful A. CTE mentions coal washery setup by bidder and its Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The compliances to be followed. However, if the Successful Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in Bidder does not intend to setup a washery, since accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded MoEF&CC has notified that coal washing is no more shortly. mandatory, we understand that the Successful Bidder does not require to fulfil compliances regarding coal washery. 4B. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Moreover, Successful Bidder shall be allowed for grant of provided in the mine dossier. EC and renewal of all previous clearances without setting up of washery also.

B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance and the

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. progress made regarding obtaining of FC Stage-1 5 Sahapur West 1. Block Area: 1. Refer the Note No. 3 given at the end of the mine summary for clarification. Area of the block as per summary document is 619 Ha & 587.5 Ha as per Mining Plan. Kindly clarify. 2A. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and interest for the mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Vesting Order 2. Project Related Studies: for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory licences, permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the Prior A. Prior Alottee has conducted Hydrological study & Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful submitted application in August 2014. Does this study Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The stands valid as of today and can the Bidder consider this Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in study for further evaluation / diversion if the Successful accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded Bidder wins the bid or the Successful Bidder needs to carry shortly. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h) of the Tender out for fresh studies. Document.

If the previous study does not stands valid as of today and 2B,3B, 3C: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have Successful Bidder needs to carry out fresh study for these been provided in the mine dossier. diversions, then the Successful Bidder is not liable to pay for these diversion studies as Fixed Amount 3A: Regarding ToR, the document submitted by the prior allottee indicates peak B. Please provide project related studies if any carried out capacity of 0.6 Mty for this block, though it appears that the same has wrongly by the Prior Allottee like - EIA / EMP / SIA / Vibration been indicated as 0.405 Mty in the list of documents under para A.0 of Annexure- Study / Flora-Fauna study etc II.For validity of ToR, please refer MoEF&CC OM No. J-11013/41/2006-IA-II- (I)(Part) dated 29.08.2017. This, however, may be confirmed from MoEF&CC. 3. Clearances: 3D.Mining plan for the coal block is available in the mine dossier. The same may A. As provided in the status for EC, Prior Allottee had mentioned NMDC has obtained modified ToR for 1.1 please be referred for land-use details. MTPA (Sahapur West 0.405 MTPA) on 23.05.2013, while in the document provided by Prioir Allottee, it could be 4. The Fixed Amount for each Coal Mine has been provided in the Mine Dossier observed that ToR for 0.6 MTPA for Sahapur West was for respective Coal Mine. It has also been uploaded in the Notifications Tab of granted on 23.05.2013. Please provide the correct status MSTC Portal.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. of ToR and its validity 5i). Production Schedule shall be as provided in Annexure I of the Tender Document.As per the approved Mining plan for the coal block, PRC is 0.6 Mty. B. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be 5 ii). The Upfront Amount, Bid Security and Performance Security shall be payable paid by the Successful Bidder. in accordance with Clause 3.9, Clause 6 and Clause 7 of the Tender Document C. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress respectively. made and the remaining obligation of project proponent for obtaining Stage-1 FC if any 6.As per GR, the borehole density comes to 10.89 nos. per sq. km and accordingly mentioned in the mine summary as approx. 11 nos. per sq. km. The number of D. Please confirm the presence of “Reserve Forest” within boreholes and the area of the coal block is given in the mine summary and other the mining lease area. If possible, mention the area of documents in mine dossier. The overall borehole density therefore can be “Reserve Forest". determined in terms of number of boreholes per sq.km of the block area.

4. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount As per the notice regarding Fixed amount dated 27th August 2020, uploaded on the MSTC portal, the "Value of Mine lnfrastructure (Rs.) Claim Submitted by Prior Allottee", a combined figure of Rs. 22,65,23,782/- has been shown for the Sahapur East and Sahapur West Coal Mine (Serial Nos. 23 & 24). Furthermore, during the site visit to the sahapur East and sahapur west coal Mine on 08th September 2020 on the scheduled site visit date provided to us; when our representative inquired about the infrastructure that was created for the particular mine for which the fixed amount was being charged, the relevant officers who were conducting the site visit did not have any idea about the same. Also, they were unable to show any kind of infrastructure created there for which the fixed amount was being charged.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No.

Hence, kindly clarify the following: i)What is the breakup of the Fixed Amount of Rs. 22,65,23,782/- pertaining to each mine individually, i.e. Sahapur East and Sahapur West as both the mines are being auctioned separately? ii) what is the infrastructure on which the above mentioned Fixed amount has been spent by the prior allottee? Please provide a detail of the some for each mine individually as the same is not mentioned in the mine dossiers purchased by us. iii) What is the justification of the amount claimed and present value of the infrastructure proposed to be provided?

5. Production: The production capacity from Sahapur West Block has been considered to be 0.6mt/yr, As per prevailing information, the seam no. ll has thickness of the coal over 1.5m, where most of the coal is inferior grade. The superior grade of the coal is available from seam no- lV and L2, but the thickness is ranging from 0.9-1.5m. Equipment for extraction of thin seam coal has height of around 1.2m. At present the roof is supported by roof bolting, hence as a result the clearance between the roof and the floor of the seam will be less than 1.2m. The operation of low height SDL within that space will be difficult, unless floor dinting or roof blasting increases the height of the gallery. Whatever method is adopted, i.e. floor dinting or roof blasting, there is a great possibility that the coal produced may be contaminated by waste

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. generated. As a result, quality of superior grade coal is likely to be affected. The operation of low height SDL is possible in the thickness range of 1.4m to 1.5m but not in the range of 1.2 to 1.3m. The production capacity 0.60mt/yr is ambitious.

i) lt is therefore requested that the proposed mine capacity of 0.60 MTA may kindly be reduced to 0.45 MTA. ii) Accordingly, the costs which are based on the production capacity may also be reduced.

6. Borehole Density:

A. Bore hole density as per Sahapur West Coal Block Summary 11 nos per sq km and as per Mine Plan it is 9.12 nos per sq. km. Request the Nominated Authority to confirm the borehole density of Shahpur West Block 6 Seregarha 1. Mining Lease: 1. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been As per Annexure - III in the Mine dossier regarding provided in the mine dossier. Tangible Assets as submitted by Prior Allottees to the nominated authority, Mining Lease application was made 2:The document prepared in 2007 is only the Geological Data, which is already on 20.07.2012. While as per the 6th Annual Report dated provided in the mine dossier. 08.05.2014 of Prior Allottee Seregarha Mines Ltd. submitted by Prior Allottee, Mining Lease application was 3-5: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been made on 20.06.2012. Please provide the correct date as provided in the mine dossier. well as the application made by Prior Allottee in respect to obtaining of Mining Lease.

2. Block Boundary: Text for GR 2007 may please be provided

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 3. Coal Evacuation:

A. Please provide the status / progress of the rail siding as the Prior Allottee has claimed INR 37 Lakhs for Railway Siding. Please provide the study regarding railway siding if any carried out by Prior Allottee

4. Clearances:

A. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

B. Please provide the status / progress made in regard to obtaining Environmental Clearance

C. Please provide the status / progress made in regard to obtaining Forest Clearance, if applicable.

5. Please provide the number of PAP's in the project area of 520 Ha.

7 Sahapur East 1.Block Area: 1. Area provided in the mine summary is for the geological block only. Refer Note Area of the block as per summary document is 659 Ha & 3 at the end of mine summary. 693 Ha as per Mining Plan. Kindly clarify. 2. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and interest for the 2. Project Related Studies: mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Vesting Order for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory licences, Prior Alottee has conducted Hydrological study & permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the Prior Allottee for the submitted application in August 2014. Does this study Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful Bidder shall be stands valid as of today and can the Bidder consider this required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The Successful Bidder study for further evaluation / diversion if the Successful shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in accordance with Bidder wins the bid or the Successful Bidder needs to carry

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. out for fresh studies Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded shortly. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h) of the Tender Document. If the previous study does not stands valid as of today and Successful Bidder needs to carry out fresh study for these 3. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been diversions, then the Successful Bidder is not liable to pay provided in the mine dossier. for these diversion studies as Fixed Amount

3. Clearances:

A. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress made and the remaining obligation of project proponent for obtaining Stage-1 FC if any 8 Thesgora B/ 1. Geological Report: 1. Plate-VIII of the Geological has been uploaded on MSTC Portal. Rudrapuri Plate-VIIII of Geological Report is not opening completely. So requesting the Nominated Authority to upload this 2. Documents as submitted by the prior allottee have been provided in the mine Plate again. dossier.

2. Mining Plan: 3A: Please refer MoEF&CC OM No. J-11013/41/2006-IA-II-(I)(Part) dated The Mining Plan specifies plates and annexures which are 29.08.2017 for validity of ToR. This, however, may be confirmed from MoEF&CC. an integral part of it. However, no plates are uploaded wr.t Mining Plan. Requesting Nominated Authority to upload 3B,3C,3D & 4: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee the Plates which are mentioned in the Mining Plan have been provided in the mine dossier.

3. Clearances:

A. Please mention the validity of grant of ToR

B. Please provide the status of Environmental Clearance

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. C. Please provide the status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

D. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress made and the obligation of Successful Bidder for obtaining Stage-1 FC if any

4. Project Related Studies:

Please provide the studies and reports carried out by the Prior Allottee for the coal block, if any like - EIA /EMP / SIA etc 9 Chitarpur 1. Clearances: 1A-1C, 1E-1I: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have A. As per Minutes of Meeting of 43rd EAC held in March been provided in the mine dossier. 2012 available in public domain, proposal for expansion of 1D: Documents related to correspondences for Stage-I forest clearance, as Chitarpur Opencast Coal Mining Project (2 MTPA to 6.75 submitted by the prior allottee, have been provided in the mine dossier. MTPA in existing ML area of 555.34 ha and an area of 230.43 ha outside the ML and expansion of pit-head coal 2. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been washery from 1 MTPA to 6.75 MTPA) of M/s Corporate provided in the mine dossier. Mining Plan given in the dossier may be referred for Ispat Alloys Ltd., located in dist. Latehar, Jharkhand was the information about R&R. pending with the EAC for further consideration of TOR.

Please provide the proposal for expansion of coal block by Prior Allottee

B. As per EC granted, project involves modification of the natural drainage through diversion of Barki River passing through the lease up to the northern boundary and ultimately discharging in the original channel near north- eastern block boundary. Please provide the status for grant of permission for the diversion of Barki River

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No.

C. Please provide the status for grant of permission from CGWA/CGWB, if applied.

D. As per the review of coal block by the Inter-Ministerial Group dated 19.02.2014 available in the public domain, it was stated that FC Stage -1 has not yet been obtained. While the mine summary in the mine dossier provided by MoC says that Stage-1 FC obtained vide (A)8-102/2011-FC; (B)8-102/2011-FC; (C)PCCF_ED WLB, dated 22/02/2013 .

The final status thus remains unclear. However, it appears that after the letter dated 31.07.2014, by the Principal Forest conservator to MoEF, it appears that the necessary requirement has been complied with, however the exact status remains unclear. Please provide the status of Stage-1 FC and any further progress made in respect to obtaining Forest Clearance

E. Please provide wildlife conservation plan, if any made by the Prior Allottee

F. Please provide the Compensatory Afforestation plan

G. Please provide R&R plan, if prepared by the prior allottee

H. Please provide the status of Compensatory Afforestation, NPV Payment and Diversion of land for the block

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. I. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

2. Please provide the number of PAF's in the total coal mine lease area

10 Rajhara North 1. Land: 1. A-E Development of coal block including taking all necessary clearances to be (Central & Eastern) Regarding land of Central Coal Fields Limited, taken by the Successful Bidder. A. what methodology will be adopted to shift the explosive magazine by CCL ? 2A &B. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h) of the Tender B. What methodology will be adopted to acquire lands Document. The Fixed Amount is based on the available information and the belonging to CCL. Will MOC facilitate such transfer assessment made by the Competent Authority and is subject to final settlement. between allottee and CCL ? Any upward revision in the Fixed Amount on a subsequent date by the C. As Police station is strategic property of State Government or the Nominated Authority consequent upon any process or on the Government, what support and methodology will be orders of any competent court of law, shall also be payable by the Successful adopted in its shifting? Bidder. Additionally, in case of any downward revision in the Fixed Amount on a D. Whether consent of shifting of NH has been obtained subsequent date by the Government or the Nominated Authority, the same from NHAI before putting it in auction? What methodology would be refunded by the Nominated Authority to the Successful Bidder. and support will be extended in its shifting from Government? 3: The information / documents as provided by prior allottee to the Nominated E. We have come to know that Sadabah River passes Authority has been uploaded in mine dossier. through, Rajhara Coal Block and its diversion will be required. Whether State Government will grant diversion of this river? Diversion will require land of CCL, whether 4A:Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been MOC will facilitate such land through CCL. provided in the mine dossier.

4B. Getting the necessary clearances/ consents/ approvals shall be the 2. Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount A. As per Clause 3.3.2h(ii) Whether value of lease hold responsibility of the Successful Bidder. rights in land or surface has been assessed. 4C. All the mines which have been put up for auction have been finalised after

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. discussions with Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change. For the B. In some Mine such investment against Land/Assets is mines in the High Conservation Value Zone, the MoEFCC orders have been shown ZERO. What if any claim related to Prior allottee uploaded in the specific mine dossiers for reference. comes after allocation where such investment is shown ZERO ? 5: Information regarding population to be affected by the project is provided in the Mining Plan given in the mine dossier. 3. It is reflected that there are old underground workings namely Debi Rai, we need the abandoned mine plan of old 6. Land documents have been provided as part of the mine dossier. UG workings to assess the safety and positioning of the 7A Information regarding population to be affected by the project is provided in Mine. MOC to facilitate to avail such details from CCL/CMPDI the Mining Plan given in the mine dossier. Bidders are required to obtain all statutory clearances/ approvals as per applicable laws. 4. Clearances:

A. Please provide the status of Environment Clearance, progress made and the remaining obligation of project proponent for obtaining EC if any

B. In case of Rajhara Coal block, NH -98 is passing through the block and dividing the block in two parts. There are also some govt. establishments like Police station, Post Office etc. marked inside the block, so please clarify whether these can be shifted out of the block or not, if yes, then the time required for doing so (including permission time for it) shall be considered separately in starting operations.

C. In the MOEF &CC Guidelines attached with tender documents, Rajhara North (Central&Eastern) is put into category “ List of Coal Blocks that require further analysis

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. and decision will be taken later in consultation with MOC. Please update on the status, whether decision has been taken prior to auction of this coal block?

5. Please provide the number of PAF's in the total coal mine lease area

6. Status of 44 Acre of project land along with its status, along with requisite documentation on its transfer/application to transfer from CCL status of acquisition of balance rayati land.

7. PAFs:

A. In the Mine Summary, there are certain household and PAF’s declared in the details of a particular mine.

(i) What is the basis of these information’s? (ii) Has the prior allottee done the SIA, Social Impact Assessment survey? (iii) What if such data increases considerably leading to increased cost or difficulty in mining, whether MOC will grant relaxation in quoted bidding amount? 11 Gare Palma IV/7 1A. Detailed exploration of Lower Seams: Additional 22 boreholes were drilled in phase 2 exploration mainly 1A-B.The total reserve given is as per the Geological Report, 2012 considering all aiming at the detailed study of reserve of lower group of the boreholes. seams. Therefore, in this study reserve for underground prospects pertaining to Seam Nos. I to IV earlier 2&3. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee has been mentioned as Indicated reserve in GR1 has been updated given in the mine dossier. to Proved category. The reserve got enhanced from 65 MT to 96.985 MT. Please explain. 4. Block area and block map along with approximate coordinates of cardinal

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. points have been given in the mine summary. The Notes given at the end of the B. Increased reserve of Upper Seams: Additional mine summary may be referred for clarification. boreholes supplemented by the previous boreholes enabled to arrive at exact reserve which is now 142.06 MT 5. Geological Reports as submitted by the prior allottee have been provided in as over the previous estimated reserve of 67.149 MT. The the mine dossier. enhanced reserve also falls under proved category. 6. As per the provisions of CMSP Act, successful bidder may negotiate with the 2. Working Plans: prior allottee if it intends to keep any property of prior allottee. In case, the Surface plan and working plan does not show the full lease negotiation fails, prior allottee shall remove its property from the mining lease area. A plan showing full lease area may please be area of the block. provided. Working plan may be provided in CAD 7. Geological Report prepared in 2012, as submitted by the prior allottee, covers 3. Gaps in Mine Dossier: all the boreholes drilled in phase-I and phase-II. Information on the Land Docs: Dedicated folder present but empty; Land details mentioned in MoC's letter 8,9: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been provided in the mine dossier. 4. Block Area: Area of the block has been revised from 4.2 sq.km. in 10. The Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h)(ii) of the Tender phase 1 to 4.81 sq.km. in phase 2 report resulted with the Document. change in overall boundary of the block. The reason is briefly mentioned as due to the dispute in boundary 11A. The Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h)(ii) of the Tender between blocks, the block boundary thereafter has been Document. revised. However, precise details of modification in block 11B. Litigation details have been uploaded in the mine dossier. area & boundary is not explained 11C&D. The Fixed Amount (for land) is based on the available information and 5. Geological Report – 2002 & 2012 the assessment made by the Competent Authority and is subject to final Following are some of the critical observations on settlement. Any upward revision in the Fixed Amount on a subsequent date by Geological Reports (GR1 & GR2) & Mine Plan document: the Government or the Nominated Authority consequent upon any process or on the orders of any competent court of law, shall also be payable by the Successful 1) Inadequate drilling in Phase 1 exploration – In Phase 1 Bidder. Additionally, in case of any downward revision in the Fixed Amount on a exploration, the number of BHs drilled for considering a subsequent date by the Government or the Nominated Authority, the same

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. reserve (Seam IX to VI) into proved category looks would be refunded by the Nominated Authority to the Successful Bidder. inadequate. Only 20 BHs were drilled in an area of 4.2 sq.km. which comes to around ~5.2 BHs/sq.km. Normally, for such area Borehole density shall be around 9-10 BHs/sq.km.

2) Lack of Washability data - No information on washability of coal seams mentioned in the geological report or mine plan. It is only mentioned that washing for Seam IX is not required and a general flowsheet is given for washing of other 3 seams of upper group of seams. Therefore, it will be difficult to comment on the performance of coal washery installed within the lease area.

3) Seam V non-consideration – In both geological reports, Seam V is considered unworkable due to inconsistence, lower thickness and being uneconomical in nature. However, in the Mine Plan, the thickness of this seam is given as 3.6-4.15 m and quality is G8-G9. Therefore, information on seam V is misleading.

4) Sector Boundaries – It is observed that sector boundaries as given in GR1 has been modified in GR2. Since, GR2 is detailed exploration report therefore, we propose to use sector definition given in GR2 for all our calculations.

6.Mine Infrastructure: There is a Coal Handling Plant of 200 TPH Capacity and

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. coal washery of 0.96 MTPA within the mine premises which is not shown in the Mine Summary uploaded in the website. This belongs to M/s Sharda Energy & Mineral Limited. Kindly clarify whether this should be considered as immovable infrastructure or movable infrastructure of mines. During previous allotment of Gare Palma IV/7 mine to M/s MIEL only the CHP building was taken as immovable infrastructure, coal washery and other related accessories and equipment were not considered as part of immovable infrastructure of mine. Further, M/s SEML had objected and approached Nominated Authority for addition of this also as immovable infrastructure for getting compensation from successful allottee. Since Coal Handling Plant and Coal Washery is lying within the mines premises will it be handed over to successful bidder or M/s SEML will be given a deadline for taking out their equipment.

7. Additional drilling & exploration: Number of additional boreholes are 22 in phase 2 of exploration with quantum of drilling being 7015.5 m meterage. This meets the requirement of detailed geological exploration. Specially because the area is not structurally complex and there is no history of thermal activity.

8. Clearances:

A. Please provide the status of Compensatory Afforestation, NPV Payment and Diversion of land for the

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. block

B. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

C. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress made and the remaining obligation of project proponent for obtaining Stage-1 FC if any

9. Please provide the number of PAF's in the total coal mine lease area

10. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount Mine development charges of 23.81 Crs has been included in the details. Are we required to pay this? Mine development has been done by prior allocatee against which coal extraction has also been done by the prior allocatee. This cost should not be passed on to the next allocattee.

11. Land:

In Gare Palma IV/7 the value of land claim submitted by prior allottee is Rs 1,52,84,316 (Submitted by MIEL) and Rs 226,39,01,384 (submitted by SEML). Against the claim of prior allottees, Rs 8,41,21,977 (as on 01-04-2015) have been approved as per the CMSP Act and Judgement dated 09.03.2017 of Hon’ble High Court of Delhi.

A. ICPPL will have to pay Rs 8,41,21,977 only, to the

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. prior allottee as the value of land and will acquire full control of the proportionate land, without any physical obstruction B. Is there any litigation pending in the court of the law against any part of the land for which the payment of Rs 8,41,21,977 is to be made by ICPPL C. As indicated in the Gare Palma IV/7 land documents, uploaded in MSTC portal, SEML acquired surface right for 324.123 Ha of land. Is the same surface right included within the amount of Rs 8,41,21,977 to be paid to the prior allottee. D. It is difficult to reconcile the amount of Rs 8,41,21,977 against the uploaded land documents for the block. Hence, ICPPL requests for the breakup details of land against the approved cost of Rs 8,41,21,977/- of a better understanding and calculation. 12 Gondulpara 1. Mining Lease: 1-3. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Please provide Mining Lease application by the Prior provided in the mine dossier. allottee dated 24.08.2011 4. Total geological reserve given is as per the GR. 2. R&R: As per EAC meeting of Jan 2013, R&R plan was prepared 5A. In mine summary, the total geological reserve as per GR is clearly shown as and submitted by prior allottee to Ministry. Please provide 176.33 Mt. However, additional information of total geological reserve of the same workable coal seams considered in the approved Mining Plan has also been given as 166.18 Mt. 3. Land Acquisition: The Mutation agreement dated 27.07.2012 for land 5B. In mine summary, the total geological reserve as per GR is clearly shown as admeasuring 85.02 acres in favour of Tenughat EMTA Coal 176.33 Mt. However, additional information of total geological reserve of Mines Ltd, pertains to mutation of 85.02 acres of land in workable coal seams considered in the approved Mining Plan has also been given Mashra village whereas actual land purchased was 112.13 as 166.18 Mt.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. acres as per sale deed dated 09.02.2012 bearing Deed no 568/560 executed between Ramanuj Singh and seven others(vendors) and Tenughat EMTA Coal Mines Ltd. 5C. Upfront Amount shall be payable in accordance with Clause 3.9 of the Further copy of Annexure III submitted by the prior Standard Tender Document and in accordance with Clause 3.9.2 of the Standard allottees in response to Ministry of Coal’s letter No Tender Document. 110/01/2014-NA with details of Schedule 1 Coal mine block provided by prior allottee mentions that 64.3036 ha 5D. It is clearly mentioned in GR that resource of Gondulpara block is 74.873Mt in (158.89 acre) has been acquired and 50.4964Ha of land is Proved category and 101.458Mt in the Indicated category (Total 176.33Mt) and more required for CA, whereas copy of Annexure IV the resource of Indicated category is heat affected. Proforma submitted by the prior allottees in response to Ministry of Coal’s letter No 110/01/2014-NA with details 6A,B,C,D: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have of land for coal Mining Operation as provided by prior been provided in the mine dossier. allottee states that 158.83 acres for CA land has been purchased, viz 73.81 acres in Village Suli and 85.02 acres in 7. Names of villages given in the mine summary has been taken from the GR. Village Masha. Data / information with respect to households and PAFs are as submitted by the Please provide the correct status of the same prior allottee.

4. Geological Report: 8&9: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Table 4.3.6 D and page no. 4-8 provided in the mine dossier. The referred page of the Geological Report stated about

101.458 Million Tons of Coal reserve as indicated for the reason of its heat affected nature and low VM properties. This coal will have very limited market. However, this Geological Reserve has been included in the tender for calculation of upfront amount and revenue share. The heat affected coal should be removed and dealt separately.

Actual Coal reserve should be considered as per the Geological Report

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 5. Reserves: A. As per MBS of Gondulpara Block, Geological Reserves considered for OC (MT) is 166.18 (74.87 MT in Pit I +91.31 MT in Future Extended Pit) and Total Extractable Coal (MT) 116.68 (62.198MT in Pit I+ 54.40MT in Future Extended Pit). But as per the “UPFRONT AMOUNT, ESTIMATED EXPLORATION EXPENSE, BID SECURITY & FIXED AMOUNT” list issued on MSTC website on 03.08.2020, the Geological Reserve of the block is mentioned as 176.33 MT. This need clarification as Crores of payment will be linked to this basic calculation only.

B. Geological Reserve in GONDULPARA in summary is 166.18 MT based on which Tender Document purchased, but Upfront Payment is calculated in Tender Document on 176.33 MT Geological Reserve. So, excess 10.15 MT impact will come on Upfront Payment and Bid Security. So, you may please clarify that whether the Geological Reserve of Mine Summary will be considered for Upfront Payment and Bid Security during the auction process of this block?

C. In Gondalpara block in Chapter 5.4 under head Coal Reserve, the net geological reserve within the coal block is about 74.873 MMT which is non-heat affected and balance 91.312 MMT is heat affected with VM value around 10%. Coal with such low VM is hardly usable. In such case, value of block should be calculated on the basis of usable coal even and non-usable coal should be reduced from

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. Geological reserve.

D. Presence of Burnt coal - Exact quantity required.

6. Coal Block Summary

A. Part-B, S. No -3

No. of PAFs as per Mining Plan/ Mine Closure Plan mentioned 495 Households (As per annexure XI, Mine Closure Plan)

Kindly confirm the number of PAFs. As per the site visit, the number of PAFs are more than that is mentioned.

B. Required how many acres of private land coming under this mining area along with plot &Khata number of Villages PHULANG, HAHE, GONDULPARA & GALI Separately.

C. Required how many acres of Government land coming under in this mining area along with plot &Khata number of Villages PHULANG, HAHE, GONDULPARA & GALI Separately.

D. Part-A, S. No-3

Non forest area given 384 Ha. We required details of this Non forest land separately coming under Pit-I & Future Extended Pit.

And also we required bifurcation of area (government land and private land) in non forest area covering Pit-I and Future Extended Pit.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 7. Annexure XI (Mine Closure Plan)

Clause no 1.2 in table 1.1 mentioned number of house holds are GONDALPURA - 326 nos BALODAR - 110 no's, GALI -59 no's

Total - 495 no's.

In Gondulpara Coal Block Summary sheet in S.no-1 name of villages mentioned are GONDALPURA, GALI, HAHE and PHULANG, But BALODAR village is not incorporated .

Those number of villages as gone up from 3 numbers to 5 numbers but households mentioned are same.( 495 numbers).

Kindly confirm the total number of households and also number of PAFs separately, bifurcating for PIT-I & Future Extended Pit

8. Mine Plan Drawing:

For all the plans, total Mining area shown in drawing marked as pit-I and Future Extended Pit. We required these area to be shown with Plot details (i.e. the plots showing forest or non forest)

9. Clearances:

A. Status of Mining Lease 13 Chakla 1. Land: 1. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been A. Chakla Coal Block was earlier acquired under Coal provided in the mine dossier. Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957 by

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. the Govt. of India and the ownership of the land vested 2. As per Clause 9.3 of the Tender Document, upon allocation of the Coal Mine, with Central Coalfield Limited (CCL). Conveyance Deed for the Mining Plan may be revised by the Successful Bidder, in accordance with the transfer of surface rights was finally executed on Guidelines for Preparation, Formulation, Submission, Processing, Scrutiny, 31.12.2008 and CCL surrendered the mineral rights on Approval and Revision of Mining plan for the coal and lignite blocks issued vide 04.09.2009. Office Memorandum F. No. 34011/28/2019-CPAM dated May 29, 2020, as may However the documents of the Land acquisition are not be amended. However, as per Clause 9.2 of the Tender Document, the Successful available. Further the Conveyance Deed dated 31.12.2008 Bidder shall ensure that the scheduled coal production as per the approved is also not available. Mining Plan is equal to or more than the Production Schedule. The adequacy of compensation is not known. Please provide the documents related to land acquisition.

2. Tender Document Clause 9.3 Revision in Mining Plan upon allocation A. As per the Coal Block summary, Mining Plan of Chakla has already been approved for a production level of 5.3 mill tons p.a. In the Mining Plan document that has been supplied as a part of Tender Document, it has been stated that it was later detected that the basis for Coal requirement for the linked power station was not correct. While the Power Station capacity had been taken as 2000 MW in the Mining Plan, it was seen that this capacity was only 1000 MW. On this basis, the RQP had worked out the revised Coal requirement which was found naturally to be much lower than 5.3 mill tons for which Mining Plan had been approved. It appears that while action for amending the Mining Plan for reducing the production capacity from 5.3 mill tons to 4 mill tons was still to be taken , the allocation got cancelled as a part of cancellation action for about 208 Blocks based on the observations of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. We seek your guidance if we still have to proceed on the basis of production capacity of 5.3 mill tons for this Block or else the successful bidder will have the opportunity to revise the production capacity downward in case it is necessary. 14 Gotitoria (East) 1. Land: &Gotitoria (West) A. Please provide clarity and details (not available in the 1A,1B. As per the provisions of CMSP Act, 2015, all the coal bearing land acquired document provided by prior allottee) on the land (122.3 by the prior allottee and lands, in or adjacent to the coal mines used for coal ha) which was purchased by the prior allottee outside the mining operations acquired by the prior allottee comprises Schedule-I coal mine. lease area. Whether it is mandatory for the successful bidder to acquire / purchase the same? Land details provided by allottee has been uploaded in the mine dossier. Any land acquired by the prior allottee outside the mining lease area should be transferred to the successful bidder only with the consent of successful bidder. Hon’ble Delhi High Court Judgment dated 9th March, 2017 in WPC 973/2015 the matter of GVK Power &Anr Vs Union of India

B. Details of each land parcel acquired by prior allottee should be available before bidding for verification.

15 Brahmadiha 1. Technical Details: 1. As per the available Geological Note, the boreholes were drilled in 1999 and Can we get some drill core of for further analysis only two boreholes were coring type, drill cores are not available.

2. Clause 3.9 Value of Estimated Geological Reserves and 2. - 3. Please refer the approved mining plan and the available Geological Note Upfront Amount for the required information. A. The details of estimation of Geological Reserves of 5 MT is not given. Needs Clarification 4: Exact requirement by the bidder is not clear. B. There is no quality data of the coal seams. In absence of such information, how the coal grade is put in Steel I. It 5. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been may be clarified. provided in the mine dossier. C. Since this is an abandoned mine, extensively worked by

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. UG method by M/S RCA, information on quantity of coal However, break-up of mining lease area of 105.153 Ha and theLease boundary mined out and balance coal needs to be provided. are given in the Mine Closure Plan (in the mine dossier) submitted by the prior allottee, while the shape file of the block (0.87 sq.km) along with provisional 3. Brahmadiha coal mine should be categorised as partially coordinates (based on the Geological Note prepared by CCL) is given in the mine explored coal mine and permission should be given for drilling few boreholes to generate quality data and some summary. seismic survey to know the extent of UG workings before 6. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been carrying out opencast operations. provided in the mine dossier. 4. Plan: 7A. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been The importance of Plan No. HCS/ BRMA/-OC/MP-9 needs no emphasis. It should therefore be digitized and provided in the mine dossier. preserved for future reference / further studies. Block area (0.87 sq.km) is shown in the shape file in the mine summary and lease

5. Area: area (105.153 Ha) is given in the mining plan/ mine closure plan submitted by the In the Mine Closure Plan prepared by Castron Mining Ltd., prior allottee. it has been stated at Chapter-1, Point No. 1.6 that the mine lease area is covering 105.153 ha Mining is to be carried out as per the approved mining plan. Status of approval of Whereas at Sl. No. 3 of the Mine Summary provided by Mine Closure Plan has already been indicated by the prior allottee in Annexure-II MSTC Limited states that the Geological Block area - 0.87 given in the mine dossier. sq.km (As per shape file; Refer Note No. 3) which admits that there is a difference in area in the shape file and the 7B. Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been lease area given in the Mining Plan. So, the area is provided in the mine dossier. tentative and field DGPS Survey is required to ascertain the exact area. 7C. Monthly Payments by the Successful Bidder shall be in accordance with Clause 3.10 of the Tender Document. There is a difference in lease area mentioned in Mine Closure Plan with respect to Block are mentioned in Mine 8A & B. It is a Fully Explored Mine. Updated mine summary has been uploaded on Summary document. It is requested and suggested to the MSTC Portal. depict both the Areas i.e. Geological Block Area and Mining Lease Area on a same Plan in different colour codes 8C. The mine has an approved Mining Plan and geological information, as

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. explaining therein the reasons for inclusion / exclusion of available,has been provided in the mine dossier. Accordingly, the block has been the portion of land in the plan so prepared. considered as Fully Explored Mine.

The difference of Area in the shape file and the lease area 8D. Information as submitted by the prior allottee including approved Mining given in the Mining Plan as per MSTC Limited are because Plan has been given in the mine dossier.As per Clause 9.3 of the Tender of tentative Cardinal Points which can be corrected by Document, upon allocation of the Coal Mine, the Mining Plan may be revised by conducting DGPS Survey. Kindly inform who would carry the Successful Bidder, in accordance with the Guidelines for Preparation, out this DGPS Survey for removing the anomaly in the figures of Block Area and ML Area. Formulation, Submission, Processing, Scrutiny, Approval and Revision of Mining plan for the coal and lignite blocks issued vide Office Memorandum F. No. 6. Boreholes: 34011/28/2019-CPAM dated May 29, 2020, as may be amended. In the Geological Note provided by Central Coalfields Limited at Page No. 3 under the heading Salient Geological 9. Bid Security shall be as per Clause 6 of the Tender Document. Featuresin a part of the RCA Sector adjoining the Chakobad Patch of Giridih Coalfield, the area of study has 10A&10C. Geological Report for this coal mine is not available. Assessment of been mentioned as 15153 Sq. m. wherein 8 Boreholes (2 geological reserve and extractable reserve has been made in the approved coring and 6 non-coring) have been drilled. mining plan submitted by the prior allottee. Only a geological note, based on whereas some boreholes drilled by CCL, is available. The same has been given in the mine In the Mine Summary provided by MSTC Limited at Point dossier. As per Clause 3.9.1 of the Tender Document, Geological Reserves for the No. 5, it has been mentioned that the Area has been partly Coal Mine is 5 MT. explored by putting 8 Boreholes (2 coring and 6 non- coring) with a total meterage 316.9 m. It is also mentioned 10B. Information as submitted by the prior allottee has been provided in the in the Mine Summary that Area of the Geological Block is mine dossier. 87 Ha. i.e. 870000 Sq.m.

11A. Information as submitted by the prior allottee has been provided in the It is requested to kindly provide a Plan of the Study Area in mine dossier. the RCA Sector of Brahamadiha OC Coal mine, covering 15153 Sq.m. area showing therein the location of the 8 11B. Upon issuance of Vesting Order for Coal Mines being auctioned under the Boreholes drilled by CCL. It is further requested to show the location of Boreholes CM(SP) Act 2015, the statutory licences, permits, permissions, approvals or put in over the Area of 87 Ha. as mentioned by MSTC consents obtained by the Prior Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. Limited in the Mine Summary. Successful Bidder. The Successful Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer/ obtaining the same. The format of Vesting Order shall be 7. Mine Closure Plan: uploaded shortly. Revision in Mining Plan shall be as per Clause 9.3 of the Tender A. Plate No. III (Geological Plan) in Page No. 271 where Document. the Lease boundary, Fault line, Stratum contour and Coal Floor RL contour etc. have been shown. 12A & B. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) of the Tender There is a boundary Fault in the south of the coal mine Document. along East-West whose amount and direction of throw has not been mentioned. Further, there is another Fault in the 13. The documents as provided by prior allottee has been uploaded in the mine South-West corner of the Mining Area which intersects dossier. with the boundary Fault. Nothing has been mentioned about the amount and direction of throw of this fault. No

Cross-sectional Diagram has been provided covering these two Faults which could have shown the effect of faulting on the coal seam.

M/s. CML, the Prior Allottee has opened up Box-cut and Quarry in the area lying between the two faults as can be seen from the Plate No.05 (Mine Closure Plan). This Quarry is presently water-logged hugely.

Request to share a detailed Geological plan/map showing the location of the boreholes, details of the Faults (Throw and Dip amount) along with other details (lease area, block area, contour etc.)

This area in between the faults having the water-logged excavation area has since not been included in the Mining Block Area (87 Ha compounded by cardinal points provided by MSTC Limited). As such, this water can pose a serious threat to the future workings in the dip side. The

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. reasons for exclusion of this part of working in the Block Area may please be shared with us for reasons of safety as there are no old plans available which show the extent of UG workings in the dip side of the excavated area, if any.

It is not known to the Bidder if, the Mine Closure Plan provided along with the Bid Document is an approved one or not. This may kindly be clarified.

B. As per annexure 2 – furnished by Previous Mine owner – No mining has been done whereas in Mine closure pg 265, It is indicated that around 19800t has been produced. Does this coal is placed in Stockpile and certified?

C. Based on Submission by previous Lease owner, the ore mined require coal washing and 85% is used as clean coal and 15% is used for Power Industry. Does the coal rates be calculated accordingly for revenue Share? i.e 15% of coal produced need to be valued at a lower price?

8. Exploration Status:

A. The Mine summary of the block which was provided before procuring the tender have classified the block as Partially explored. Whereas the Bid Security is calculated as Fully Explored Block. This may please be explained.

B. Since it is a Partly Explored block, why this block has not been placed in the category of “Partially Explored Block” category?

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No.

C. It is mentioned in the Mine Summary that the details about the block is based on a geological note of a small portion (0.015 Sq. Km of the total area of 0.87 Sq.km) of erstwhile RCA sector. Without a proper Geological Report, the given Geological reserves of 5MT of the block is in which category--- G1 or G2?

D. Without data on detailed exploration, how it will be possible to prepare Mine Plan for the block.

9. Tender Document Clause 6 Bid Security

A.Bid Security may be calculated based on Exploration Cost and timeline may be accorded for carrying out detailed exploration in the block.

10. Reserves: A. The previous Lease Holder has used document provided by CCL with reserve estimation of 88730T only and have not provided any basis to support the 5MT resource. What is the confidence of Nominated Authority, Ministry of Coal in declaring this resource as base in Tender?

B. The Mine plan has 2.215MT as reserve without any supporting calculation. Request to provide more details?

C. There are contradictions in the documents provided for the Brahmadiha Coal Mine. As per the Tender Document, the Geological Reserves are 5 MT whereas as per the document titled “Information in respect of Brahmadiha

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. Coal Mine”, the Net Geological Reserves are 88730 tonnes and as per the Approved Mining Plan of BOCP-Vol-I the extractable reserves are 2.215 MT. Kindly clarify the correct Geological Reserves.

11.Mine Plan: A. The plates Scan quality is very poor. Can you please upload colour scan drawings?

B. Considering the Previous Lease owner has not made any mining, Can the same mining plan be approved without any modification on resubmission?

12. Annexure II – Information of Tangible Assets A. The amount payable to Previous owner is not clear.

B. 13,84,34,598 expenses marked under Mine development related work has no supporting break up.

13. Cost of Land Acquisition Cost of Land acquisition is mentioned as 1,98,16,138 whereas in Annexure II pg 69 it is shown as 1,97,87,700. Pl clarify. 16 ChoritandTiliaya 1. Annexure II of Tender Document 1A: Weighted average grade of coal in the block has been calculated considering A. Basis of declaring grade of “ChoritandTiliaya” mine WV the ash content of ungraded coal (W-V and W-VI). in the Mine Summary Sheet while the grade are ranging from WI to ungraded 1B & C: Required information is available in the GR. B. Clarification required on Grade wise reserve of “ChoritandTiliaya” Coal Block 1D: Methodology was different for earlier tranches of auction. C. Needs clarity on Seam Wise CSN value of “ChoritandTiliaya” Coal Block as per Bore Hole analysis

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. D. The grades provided in the tender document of 2. As the GR was prepared in 1996, drill cores are not available. “ChoritandTiliaya” 9th Trench Coal Block Auction was Washery Grade III doesn’t match with the grades 3. The information regarding any elephant corridor may be obtained from state mentioned in Coal Mine Summary of Current Trance Coal forest department. Block Auction.

2. Technical Details: Can we get some drill core of for further analysis

3. Kindly clarify whether ChoritandTiliaya will or may fall in Elephant Corridor or not.

17 MarkiMangli II 1. Mining Plan: 1. Separate approved mining plan for MarkiMangli-II was submitted by the prior The Mine Plan approval is given for combined mines (viz allottee and the same has been provided in the mine dossier MarkiMangli – II, MarkiMangli – III and MarkiMangli – IV). This will have many complications if there is a violation of 2. The indicated grade is as per the average grade of coal given in the GR for the conditions of Mine Plan approval by any of the combined block. Mines. It would be better if separate approval is issued for MarkiMangli-II. 3A. As per CM(SP) Act, 2015

3B: Area required, as given in the mine summary, is based on the information 2. Grade of Coal: submitted by the prior allottee through Annexure. As per our knowledge and source the coal grade in MarkiMangli – II is G11 – G12 whereas you have quoted 4. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h) of the Tender Document. G8 grade. We would therefore request you to kindly The Successful bidder shall be responsible for land acquisition as per Applicable reconsider the grade. Laws.

3. Land: 5A. Copies of clearances as submitted by the prior allottee have been given in the A. An outstanding loan of Rs 103.52 Cr has been shown Mine Dossier. against the assets including mortgaged of land etc. It is presumed that new allottee shall not have any liability on 5B & C. All the mining operations shall be as per Applicable Law and the timelines such loans and land will be available for mining to new for development shall be as per the Efficiency Parameters provided in the allottee free from all encumbrances including freehold Standard Agreement. Getting the necessary clearances/ consents/ approvals shall

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. land acquired by earlier allottee. Please confirm. be the responsibility of the Successful Bidder.

B. It is observed that total Mining Lease area of 261.20 Ha 6. The method of mining as per the approved mining plan is opencast. There is no was approved by the Ministry of Coal for MarkiMangli-II separate geological report for MarkiMangli-II coal block. Combined GR for vide letter dated 16th December 2009. Accordingly, MarkiMangli-II, III and IV is only available in the mine dossier. orders were issued by the State Government for signing 7. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) of the Tender the mining lease vide letter dated 04/03/2010 for the Document. For the mines being auctioned under CM(SP) Act, 2015, as per the same including 102.13 Ha of forest land. However, it is Tender Document, the Fixed Amount is the payment towards compensation to noted that as no FC was granted, total Mining Lease area prior allottee for land and mine infrastructure, for the preparation of geological was reduced to 159.079 Ha vide letter dated 14th January report, for obtaining all statutory licenses, permits, permissions, approvals, 2011 and lease was executed for the same. The summary clearances or consents relevant to the mining operations; cost incurred by of MM-II is still showing total area requirement of 295.19 CMPDIL and other agencies for preparation of the mine dossier including block Ha. Please clarify the status of total land involved and boundary and financial valuation along with applicable taxes, in deriving detailed equivalent Geological reserves. geographical boundary coordinates and in preparing geological report, if any.

4. Submission of Data Required for Reassessment of 8. Separate Geological Report for MarkiMangli-II coal block is not available. The Compensation under MM-II land Documents: information and documents as submitted by the prior allottee has been provided A. Sheet 3 indicates that “No Compensatory Afforestation in the mine dossier. Land and Rehabilitation & Resettlement Land is required and hence Not Applicable”. Please confirm that there is no liability on account of CAMPA and NPV for forest land. B. A land measuring 57.91 Ha land already purchased as freehold land and agreement to purchase signed for 44.24 Ha land by converting agricultural land . Please advice about additional expenditure involved in procurement of 44.24 Ha land. C. Total Private land is mentioned as 184.44 Ha. What about status of the land which need to be procured additionally and cost impact?

5. Clearances:

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. A. Combined EC was granted for MM-II, III and IV in the name of Shree Veerangana Steel Private Limited (now TopworthUrja& Metals Limited). It is stated that all clearances for MarkiMangli-II ( EC , FC and other statutory clearances) are available but no document with regard to Forest Clearance is attached in the Mine Dossier. Please provide the copy of FC granted for MM-II to estimate the liability on account of above.

B. It is clarified that fresh EC shall have to be obtained for MarkiMangli –II block as per applicable laws. It implies that due process of obtaining EC , FC , Wildlife clearance , R&R etc shall have to be started afresh and no mining operations will be allowed even in areas where mining was in progress. Please confirm.

C. To minimize capital expenses, splitting of mining areas will be permitted or not. This is mainly from the fact that the Forest area is not having much reserves and thus delaying mining operation in want of EC may not be justified.

6. Reserves: As per document “ 01 Geological report, the entire Coal belt comprising of MM-II,III and IV consist of around 35.54 Million Tons of total reserves, out of which only 4.40 Million Tons have open cast potential and balance Under Ground. However, MM-II summary shows Geological reserves of 11.54 Million Tons and Mine has been

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. classified as Open Cast. Is there separate Geological report for MM-II confirming its potential as open cast? If so, please share the same.

7. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount:

As per clarifications furnished, land cost as on May 11, 2020 is Rs 54, 15, 55,746. However, it is not clear whether this amount is for total land or only for a portion of land purchased by the Prior Alottee and presently Mortgaged with the banks. If so, please specify total liability on account of land as total private land involved is 184.44 Ha whereas acquired land is shown only 57.91 ha.

8. Geological Report:

As per document “ 01 Geological report, the entire Coal belt comprising MM-II,III and IV consist of around 35.54 Million Tons of total reserves, out of which only 4.40 Million Tons have open cast potential and balance Under Ground. However, MM-II summary shows Geological reserves of 11.54 Million Tons ( Extractable 6.53 million tons) and Mine has been classified as Open Cast. Is there a separate Geological report for MM-II confirming its potential as open cast? If so, please share the same.

18 Takli Jena Bellora 1. Land: 1. Land details as available with the Office of the Nominated Authority has been (North) and Takli A. Total Mining area are located with coordinates, but we provided in the mine dossiers. Jena Bellora (South) required along with plot details.

B. We required bifurcation of area (government land and

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. private land) in non-forest area 2. As per information available with MoC, these are not Schedule-II coal mines.

C. Clarification required for number of villages covered in mining area, As per our observation in site visit BELORA, ASHTIRITH, JENA, PANWADA, GOVARDIPRITH, DONGARGAON KHARDI villages are coming in mining area

D. Required how many acres of private land coming under this mining area along with plot &Khata number of Villages BELORA, ASHTIRITH, JENA, PANWADA, GOVARDIPRITH & DONGARGAON KHARDI Separately. E. Required how many acres of Government land coming under in this mining area along with plot &Khata number of Villages BELORA, ASHTIRITH, JENA, PANWADA, GOVARDIPRITH & DONGARGAON KHARDI Separately. F. Land already acquired by Central Collieries Co. Ltd. And Lloyds Metal & Engineering Ltd. (DAGA Corporation) of 129.32 acres. At the time of site visit we observed that the entire land ceased by ED; Kindly clarify that land is included in this mining area or not? If yes what is the present status.

2. There is a pit with area of ~7Ha visible in the in Takli Jena South Block (observed from the google earth map with the coordinates provided in the summary doc) and it seems mining has been done in the past. While it is written in the summary document that mining plan and other permits are not available, MoC is requested to clarify if mining has been undertaken. What is the coal tonnage mined out from the block? And in which year this mining has been done? Will this be reduced from the resources

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. while assessing the payments and securities?

19 Bandha 1. Coal Evacuation: 1. The Chopan – Singaruli – Katni section of Central Railway just touches the north western corner of Bandha coal block. Please provide the distance of ( local station - Bargawan on Chopan – Singaruli – Katni section of Central Railway) from 2-3. Block under exploration by CMPDIL. the mine , This information will ease us in preparation of evacuation plan.

2. Project Related Studies:

Please provide project related studies, if any, such as hydrogeology report, etc.

3. Project Reports: A. In respect of this Block, only Geological Reports are available and Mining Plans have not been prepared. For making an assessment of the quality of coal that will be produced and the stripping ratio etc. therefore, some details like reports on “foot by foot” analysis and “band by band” analysis should be made available.

20 ShankarpurBhatgaon 1. Please provide the status of Compensatory 1-4.Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been II Extn. Afforestation, NPV Payment and Diversion of land for provided in the mine dossier. extension area of the block

2. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

3. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress made and the remaining obligation of project proponent

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. for obtaining Stage-1 FC if any3

4. Please provide the number of PAF's in the total coal mine lease area

21 UrmaPaharitola 1. Project Related Studies: 1. This coal block is partially explored. No project related study is available.

Please provide project related studies, if any, such as 2. Estimated exploration expense shall be as provided in the tender document. hydrogeology report, etc. 3.This is a partially explored block. Only regional geological report by GSI is 2. Tender Document Annexure I Mandatory Work available. After detailed exploration and preparation of the GR, the upfront Program and Production Schedule amount will be calculated.

A. It was understood that about 11 boreholes were drilled within the leasehold area and additional 94 boreholes will be required to be drilled. The estimated exploration expenses to drilled 94 boreholes will be INR 34,56,00,000.00 (Indian Rupees Thirty Four Crore and Fifty Six Lakh).

Please provide the breakup of the exploration expenses as estimated.

3. Reserves:

It has been observed that a river is bisecting the block in two parts. Please confirm that the geological reserve considered for calculating the upfront fee of the block is devoid of the resource available below the river.

Due to the presence of the river the mineable reserve of

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. the block will be drastically reduced. Accordingly, the upfront fee should be calculated on the mineable reserve.

22 Dhirauli 1. Project Related Studies: 1. Project related studies are not available for this coal block.

Please provide project related studies, if any, such as 2. This block being MMDR coal block having no prior allottee, no mining plan is hydrogeology report, etc. available.

2. Project Reports: 3. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) of the Tender A. In respect of this Block, only Geological Reports are Document. available and Mining Plans have not been prepared. For making an assessment of the quality of coal that will be The Fixed Amount for each Coal Mine has been provided in the Mine Dossier for produced and the stripping ratio etc. therefore, some respective Coal Mine. It has also been uploaded in the Notifications Tab of MSTC details like reports on “foot by foot” analysis and “band by Portal. band” analysis should be made available. 4. Production Schedule shall be as provided in Annexure I of the Tender 3. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount Document. For grade details, please refer to the mine specific documents in the A. The fixed amount of the block is estimated to INR Mine Dossier. Efficiency Parameters shall be as given in the Agreement. 46,95,64,008.00 (Indian Rupees Forty Six Crore, Ninety Five Lakh Sixty Four Thousand and Eight), which seems to be on the higher side.

Please provide the breakup in detail for the estimated fixed amount.

4. Tender Document Annexure I Mandatory Work Program and Production Schedule

A. Request to provide grade-wise production plan for each year.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. B. Please provide a detailed schedule to understand the activities considered for this block.

23 Gare Palma IV/1 1. Clearances: 1A. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and interest for the mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Vesting Order A. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory required for diversion and NPV payment required to be licences, permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the Prior paid by the Successful Bidder. Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The We understand that if any diversion carried out by Prior Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in Allottee or if any NPV payment done by Prior Allottee accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded would still be valid for further process of obtaining FC shortly. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2(h) of the Tender B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress Document. made and the remaining obligation of project proponent 1B,C,2,3: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have for obtaining Stage-1 FC if any been provided in the mine dossier. C. Please provide the status of Compensatory Afforestation, NPV Payment and Diversion of land for 4. As per Clause 9.3 of the Tender Document, upon allocation of the Coal Mine, extension area of the block the Mining Plan may be revised by the Successful Bidder, in accordance with the Guidelines for Preparation, Formulation, Submission, Processing, Scrutiny, 2. Project Related Studies: Approval and Revision of Mining plan for the coal and lignite blocks issued vide Please provide project related studies carried out by the Office Memorandum F. No. 34011/28/2019-CPAM dated May 29, 2020, as may Prior Allottee like - EIA / EMP / SIA / Vibration Study / be amended. However, as per Clause 9.2 of the Tender Document, the Successful Flora-Fauna study etc Bidder shall ensure that the scheduled coal production as per the approved Mining Plan is equal to or more than the Production Schedule. 3. Please provide the number of PAF, PAP, PDF in the block area and extension area

4. Tender Document Clause 9.3 Revision in Mining Plan upon allocation Can the mining plan extraction be reduced? Balance

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. reserves mostly can be mined by underground method of mining &production of 6 mtpa is very difficult. If, allowed, then life of the mine can be increased.

24 Marwatola Sector VI 1. Project Related Studies: 1,2. This block being MMDR coal block having no prior allottee, no mining plan & VII and other project related studies are available. Please provide project related studies, if any, such as hydrogeology report, etc. 3. The Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining all clearances as per Applicable Laws. 2. Please provide details of PAF's / PAPs, PDFs in the area 4. This block being MMDR coal block having no prior allottee, no mining plan and 3. Surface Infrastructure: other project related studies are available.

A. In the Mine Dossier provided by MoC, following Surface 5. Fixed Amount shall be payable as per Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) of the Tender Constraints has been mentioned : Document. 1. Railway line passes partly along the boundary of the The Fixed Amount for each Coal Mine has been provided in the Mine Dossier for block respective Coal Mine. It has also been uploaded in the Notifications Tab of MSTC 2. Bagaihanala passes through the block Portal.

3. Arar nala is passing through the block. 6. Production Schedule shall be as provided in Annexure I of the Tender Document. For grade details, please refer to the mine specific documents in the 4. sohagpur river forest Mine Dossier. Efficiency Parameters shall be as given in the Agreement. Please clarify who would be responsible for diversion of Railway Line and who would bear cost for the same.

Please provide details of both the naalas needed for diverion on the block and the width of the river forest.

Also please provide the details of the non coal bearing area upon which this diversion shall take place.

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. Diversion of such infra (Railway line) is capital intensive and would increase the risk of financial burden on the Bidder by spending capital on infrastructure which is not asset of the Bidder or the project

B. In the presentation made during the launch of auction of coal mines for sale of coal, it has been mentioned that Sahdol-Pali road passes though the block.

Please clarify who would be responsible for diversion of road and who would bear the cost, govt. authority or the owner.

4. Project Reports: A. In respect of this Block, only Geological Reports are available and Mining Plans have not been prepared. For making an assessment of the quality of coal that will be produced and the stripping ratio etc. therefore, some details like reports on “foot by foot” analysis and “band by band” analysis should be made available.

5. Tender Document Clause 3.3.2 (h)(ii) Fixed Amount

A. The fixed amount of the block is estimated to INR 34,51,31,592.00 (Indian Rupees Thirty Four Crore, Fifty One Lakh,Thirty One Thousand and Five Hundred and Ninety Two), which seems to be on higher side.

Please provide the breakup in detail for the estimated fixed amount.

6. Tender Document Annexure I Mandatory Work

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. Program and Production Schedule

A. Request to provide grade-wise production plan for each year.

B. Please provide a detailed schedule to understand the activities considered for this block.

25 Chhendipada I & II 1. Clearances: 1A. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and interest for the mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Vesting Order A. ToR condition requires furnishing details of for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory beneficiation plant for grant of Environmental Clearance licences, permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the Prior since the Prior Alottee being a Steel producer intended to Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful establish washery. However, if the Successful Bidder does Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The not intend to setup a washery, since MoEF&CC has Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in notified that coal washing is no more mandatory, we accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded understand that the Successful Bidder be eligible for grant shortly. of EC without setting up coal washery / beneficiation plant in such condition and take forward process from where 1B: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Prior Allottee left. provided in the mine dossier.

B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance and the progress made regarding obtaining of FC Stage-1

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. 26 Kuraloi A North Please provide details of PAF's / PAPs in the area As this coal block is under MMDR Act, there is no prior allottee. Only GR prepared by CMPDI is available.

Village population and households has been given under demographic pattern of Kuraloi-A North coal block in the GR.

27 Machhakata& 1. Clearances: 1A. Upon issuance of Vesting/ Allocation Order, all rights, title and interest for Mahanadi the mine shall be vested in the Successful Bidder. Upon issuance of Vesting Order A. ToR condition requires furnishing details of for Coal Mines being auctioned under the CM(SP) Act, 2015, the statutory beneficiation plant for grant of Environmental Clearance licences, permits, permissions, approvals or consents obtained by the Prior since the Prior Alottee intended to establish washery. Allottee for the Coal Mine, shall vest in the Successful Bidder. The Successful However, if the Successful Bidder does not intend to setup Bidder shall be required to follow due procedure for transfer of the same. The a washery, since MoEF&CC has notified that coal washing Successful Bidder shall be responsible for obtaining clearance/ approvals etc. in is no more mandatory, we understand that the Successful accordance with Applicable Law. The format of Vesting Order shall be uploaded Bidder be eligible for grant of EC without setting up coal shortly. washery / beneficiation plant in such condition. 1B: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been Coal washing is no more mandatory as notified by provided in the mine dossier. MoEF&CC. To be competitive in the market, Successful

Bidder might adopt the new norms of doing away with mandatory washing and spend a huge capital on such 2. The evacuation infrastructure shall be the responsibility of the successful irrelevant infrastructure. Hence, Successful Bidder shall be bidder. However, the Govt. of India is also committed to development of coal allowed for grant of EC without setting up of beneficiation sector infrastructure. The Government is taking many initiatives to augment coal plant. evacuation infrastructure including new railway lines and presently undertaking studies to enhance the evacuation infrastructure. B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, NPV payment and CA . Also please provide the progress made regarding obtaining of FC Stage-1.

2. Coal Evacuation:

It may be noted that to facilitate coal evacuation from this

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. block would necessarily require railway siding at mine, which is at present non-existent.

Given the present situation (of no evacuation mechanism present) and various unforeseen challenges/ hindrances involved in developing rail head for this block in the future, Ministry of Coal is requested to consider future scope of updating the efficiency parameters so that the successful bidder is not unduly penalized. This is especially important given the dependency on multiple stakeholders to develop railway tracks in the Talcher coalfield region.

28 MarkiBarka 1. Clearances: 1&2: Documents and information as submitted by the prior allottee have been provided in the mine dossier. A. Please provide the Status of Forest Diversion and area required for diversion and NPV payment required to be paid by the Successful Bidder.

B. Please provide the status of Forest Clearance, progress made and the remaining obligation of Successful Bidder for obtaining Stage-2 FC if any

2. Project Related Studies:

Please provide project related studies carried out by the Prior Allottee like - EIA / EMP / SIA / Vibration Study / Topography study , Hydrology study, Socio Economic survey, etc

29 Dolesara 1. Mine Summary: The referred railway track belongs to M/s NTPC. The tentative alignment as provided by M/s NTPC has been uploaded in the mine dossier. Dolesara is an A. It is observed that an under-construction railway track underground coal block and the railway line passing through this block will have

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. bisects the block in the N-S direction. Also, a railway negligible effect in case the allocattee extracts coal through underground underpass is under development in the northern side of technique. Besides railway lines, other surface constraints also exist as given in the block (near the proposed Bhalumunda railway siding). the mine summary/ dossier. In case of any surface constraints, the impact and measures for its mitigation may be assessed by the bidders. These may cause significant coal to be blocked and not available for mining.

Following information may be provided:

(i) Is there a scope of diversion of the railway tracks? (ii) If the railway line comes up, what quantum of coal is expected to be blocked in the barrier? Mineable reserves may be reconsidered by Ministry of Coal in such a case, instead of Geological reserves Detailed project reports/ civil engg. drawings regarding the railway tracks/ underpasses may be provided to the bidder. This may be required for planning mining scheme including ascertaining mineable OC & UG reserves

30 Jarekela 1. Mine Summary: The referred railway track belongs to M/s NTPC. The tentative alignment as provided by M/s NTPC has been uploaded in the mine dossier. Jarekela is an A. There is no mention of any railway track/ line within underground coal block and the railway line passing through this block will have “surface constraints”. But site information suggests that an negligible effect in case the allocattee extracts coal through underground under-construction railway line bisects the property in the technique. Besides railway lines, other surface constraints also exist as given in N-S direction. the mine summary/ dossier. In case of any surface constraints, the impact and measures for its mitigation may be assessed by the bidders. Following information may be provided:

(i) Is there a scope of diversion of the railway tracks?

(ii) If the railway line comes up, what quantum of coal is

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S. Name of the Mine Query Response No. expected to be blocked in the barrier? Mineable reserves may be reconsidered by Ministry of Coal in such a case, instead of Geological reserves

(iii) Detailed project reports/ civil engg. drawings regarding the railway tracks/ underpasses may be provided to the bidder. This may be required for planning mining scheme including ascertaining mineable OC & UG reserves

31 JharpalamTangarghat 1. Mine Summary: As per present information, there is no existing railway track on the block.

At present as per site information, no railway track/ line is A proposal is under consideration for connecting CERL railway linewith Barpali- being developed/ under-construction. Sardega railway line. The tentative alignment passes over the coal block. Tentative railway alignment is shown in the OCBIS in the official website of The details of the proposed rail alignment may be CMPDI provided, such as present development status, location of (https://www.cmpdi.co.in/OCBIS/LIS.php?cf=MANDRAIGARH&block=JHARPALAM THANGARGHAT). railway siding, siding capacity, route, etc. The details are yet to be formulated.

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