CIL-NTPC quality issue: Crushing the inferior coal
Amarpali coal mine of Central Coalfields, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, in Jharkhand. (Express file photo) In April 2013, a dispute between India's largest coal producer Coal India Limited (CIL) and the country's largest power producer NTPC Ltd on the issue of quality of coal being supplied had aggravated to such a level that the Central government had to step in and ask both the parties