Country's top power producer NTPC recently floated tenders for importing 4 million tonnes of coal for 14 of its projects. The company has scrapped an earlier tender of the same amount to change certain technical specifications.

The company floated four tenders for supply to projects including Farakka, Khalgaon, Simhadri, Talcher, Singrauli, Dadri, Sipat and Rihand.

The tender said that the selected bidder would be responsible for sourcing non coking coal and delivering it till various NTPC power stations. Scope of work includes supply of imported non-coking steam coal to NTPC at Indian ports, storage, port clearances, arranging railway rakes, transportation and delivery at NTPC power station.

NTPC estimates total coal requirement of about 162 million tonnes during the current year and targets importing 16 million tonnes. It has already signed an agreement with state run State Trading Corp for importing 12 million tonnes.

It said that the company would finance the tender through its internal resources. The bid documents will be available for a month.

(Sourced from ET)