(a) whether the Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries have procured huge quantity of spare parts and equipment running into several crores during January to April, 2008;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether the spare parts/equipment supplied by the
private contractors have been checked/verified; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COAL
(SHRI SANTOSH BAGRODIA)
(a) & (b): As reported by Coal India Limited (CIL), the
subsidiary companies of CIL have procured equipments based
on the approved requirements as per Project Report Provision
(PRP) for additional requirement of equipment and against
survey-off of old equipment for replacement requirement.
Similarly, spare parts have been procured against approved
requirement for maintenance of equipment. The total value
of procurement of equipment and spares made by subsidiary
companies of CIL during January, 2008 to April, 2008 is Rs.
1288.26 crore.
The Subsidiaries-wise breakup of purchase of equipments
and spares during the said period is as under:-
(Rs. in crore) Sl. Subsidiary Equipment Spares Total No. Company
1. SECL 853.18 7.53 860.71 2. NCL 71.50 60.02 131.52 3. WCL 93.19 38.07 131.26 4. BCCL 34.08 28.80 62.88 5. ECL 52.49 6.02 58.51 6. CCL 6.44 20.23 26.67 7 MCL 11.00 5.71 16.71 Total 1121.88 166.38 1288.26