THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COAL (SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL) :
(a) Yes, Sir. Coal Conservation and Development Advisory Committee (CCDAC) recommends
grant of assistance for claim as per CCDAC guidelines in respect of stowing, protective
work and rail/road to different coal companies. The claims are initially assessed at the
coal mines on the basis of their actual performance. Al! such claims assessed at the mines
are further scrutinised at different tiers/levels of the coal companies, CIL (Hq) in case
of subsidiary coal companies of CIL, field offices of Coal Controllers Office (for both CIL
and Non-CIL companies) and a subcommittee to CCDAC before these are considered and
recommended for the CCDAC meeting. Normative costs of the individual mines are taken into
account for arriving at the final recommendation of CCDAC for reimbursement of claims.
(b) Total number of applications for claims received from the coal companies and considered
for recommendation by CCDAC were as under :
Head 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03
Stowing 121 115 110
Protective work 51 46 33
Road/Rail 80 36 39
Total 252 197 182
(c) Year-wise/He ad-wise admissible amount claimed vis-a-vis amount sanctioned
by CCDAC for reimbursement were as under :
(Figures in Rs.lakh)
Head 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003
Claim Sanction Claim Sanction Claim Sanction
Stowing 11780.620 6209.023 13595.419 8157.251 12835.977 7701.586
Protective 758.925 569.194 732.010 549.008 628.480 471.360
work
Road/Rail 5595.754 4599.780 4386.880 4000.000 2472.440 1995.800
Total 18135.299 11377.997 18714.309 12706.259 15936.897 10168.746
