Coal India signs more non-disclosure pacts for overseas buys

Mumbai: Coal India Ltd is getting closer to acquiring global assets to boost production by signing a few more non-disclosure pacts with overseas companies, in addition to the three signed a few months ago, a company executive said on Monday.

“Some more non-disclosure agreements have been signed,” the official said, declining to be named. “We’ll be appointing bankers from our panel for due diligence of these assets after approval from the competent authority.”

Coal India, the world’s largest coal producing company that mined 452.21 million tonnes in 2012-13, has a war chest of Rs.35,000 crore for the next five years for overseas acquisitions as its expansion plans in India remain bogged down with social and environmental difficulties. MINT

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