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R-Power moves court against Sasan coal block cancellation

Anil Ambani's Reliance Power and its wholly-owned subsidiary Sasan Power on Thursday moved the Delhi high court against the coal ministry's decision to cancel allocation of one of the three coal blocks attached to the company's 4,000MW power project in Madhya Pradesh.

The company filed a petition challenging the ministry's May 7 notification cancelling allocation and withdrawing permission to supply surplus coal of up to 9 million tonne a year from the three mines attached to Sasan — Moher, Moher-Amlohri extension besides Chhatrasal — to a power plant of Chitrangi Power Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of R-Power.

The Chhatrasal coal block was allotted to Sasan Power Ltd in 2006 and the company said the Supreme Court's Coalgate judgement did not cancel allocation of blocks for the Sasan power project. But the government had cancelled the block in view of the Supreme Court's judgements of August 24, 2014, and September 25, 2014, by which allocations of all 214 coal blocks were cancelled.

RPower had in March this year said that its Sasan project has been fully commissioned. Sasan project is an integrated power plant-cum-coal mining project at a single location, involving an investment of over Rs 27,000 crore, the company has said.

source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com