NTPC SCCL Railway ink pact on coal supply

Hyderabad: In a first-of-its-kind agreement in the country, the NTPC, Singareni  Collieries (SCCL) and the Railways reached a tripartite pact here on June 10 on the  supply of 35 lakh more tonnes of coal through the merry-go-round railway line at  Ramagundam in Karimnagar district. It follows the SCR and the NTPC agreeing to  provide rakes, as suggested by the SCCL. The agreement came into immediate effect.
 
Representatives of the three organisations initiated the agreement in the presence  of SCR General Manager Ravindra Gupta at Rail Nilayam in Secunderabad, a press  release issued by the SCCL said. It stated that the pact was the first such to be  signed on the merry-go-round transportation of coal from SCCL to the NTPC thermal  plant.

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