Blaming NTPC Kaniha for failing to lift the required quantity of coal from the sidings, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) is exploring alternatives to liquidate piling stock.
About 50,000 tonne of coal is lying idle at the railway sidings while over 120,000 tonne of the dry fuel has piled up at the mines pit head.
NTPC Kaniha which can lift 20,000-22,000 tonne of coal per day as per present production trend at the linked MCL Kaniha open cast project, has not been able to provide sufficient rakes at railway sidings for coal despatch, said an MCL release.
MCL, has however, clarified that though it is mulling to take the e-auction route to sell coal, priority will always be on supplies to NTPC Kaniha.
