India, July 28 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Revised SHAKTI Policy, 2025 is a transparent way of allocation of coal to the Power Sector. This Policy enhances scope of the erstwhile coal linkage allocation policy for Power Sector by providing greater flexibility, wider eligibility and better accessibility to coal. It encourages competition, enhances efficiency, ensures better use of capacity and provides for seamless pit head thermal capacity addition and affordable power to the country.
In furtherance of ease of doing business, the Revised SHAKTI Policy, 2025, has simplified and mapped the multiple windows for coal linkage allocation under the erstwhile SHAKTI Policy, 2017 into only two Windows as under:
Window I: Coal linkage to Central GENCOs/ States at Notified Price.
Window II: Coal linkage to all GENCOs at a Premium above Notified Price.
The Revised SHAKTI Policy, 2025 ensures coal linkages in a transparent manner to all power producers irrespective of ownership i.e. Central Genco, State Genco and Independent Power Producers (IPPs).
The new linkages offered to the power sector would increase the coal availability for the power sector and increase the mining activities in the coal bearing regions resulting in generation of higher revenue to the State Governments which can be utilized for development of these regions and local population in general.
The rest of the document can be viewed at https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2149190
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