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Meena replaces Anil Kumar Jain who superannuated on Monday.
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Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj also awarded two year imprisonment to former joint-Secretary in the Ministry of Coal (MoC), K S Kropha in the case and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000, while Gupta was asked to pay a fine of Rs one lakh.
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The coastal thermal power plants are now generating around half of their capacity because of the sharp rise in the prices of imported coal. This has resulted in a gap between the demand and supply of electricity.
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Special Judge Bharat Parashar heard the arguments from the probe agency and convicts Koda, Gupta, ex-Jharkhand chief secretary A K Basu, Koda's close aide Vijay Joshi and the company Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd (VISUL) and reserved the order.
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A high court bench of Justice Vinod Goel today admitted the appeal and issued notice to the CBI which was accepted by agency's counsel Tarannum Cheema.
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Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar also convicted the coal ministry's then joint secretary K S Kropha and then director K C Samaria besides others in the case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of Thesgora-B Rudrapuri coal block in Madhya Pradesh to KSSPL.
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Once the projects are successful, government will push for commercial use of technology for utilisation of country's huge coal reserves, Coal Secretary Susheel Kumar said.
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Output at Coal India Ltd's Lalmatia mine could fall by about 30 percent this month after 18 miners were killed in an accident there, a senior company official told Reuters.
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The miner is expected to achieve its 2016/17 production target of 575 million tonnes and aims to raise output to 1 billion tonnes by 2020, Susheel Kumar told television news channel CNBC-TV18 in an interview.
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Speaking to CNBC-TV18 Susheel Kumar, Coal Secretary, said the offtake while being flat in the first three quarters of this fiscal year, November and December were good.
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Coal Secretary Anil Swarup was
appointed School Education Secretary as part of a top-level
bureaucratic reshuffle effected today.
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"There is no move to scale down Coal India production target. I had a discussion with Coal India (CIL) people. They would make it up by 31st of March. This year there has been unusual rains," Coal Secretary Anil Swarup told reporters here.
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"Someone has to look into these issues. How to increase this demand of power. It is very important because today per capita consumption of energy in India is equal to per capita consumption of the US in the late 90's. If that is the pace than the demand has to go up," the Secretary said.
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"Date for going totally digital in Coal Ministry advanced from 1st Nov to 16th Oct. All files & papers to move in digital format," Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said in a tweet.
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The development comes in the backdrop of a sharp decline in demand for coal as well as with an inventory of over 80 million tonnes (MT) of the fuel at the pitheads and power plants.
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The accused completed recording of their statements before Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar, who posted the matter for further hearing on July 21.
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Eight out of the 16 mines will be allocated to the host states (where the mine is located) and the balance will be for non-host states, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said.
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Coal India (CIL), which accounts for over 80 percent of the domestic production, is aiming to double the output to one billion tonne. "(For CIL) 550 million tonne would now be a little difficult in the given circumstances.
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There are a lot of non-power sectors like aluminium, cement industry, iron and steel, that are starving of coal.
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The court took cognisance of the alleged offences under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servants) and 420 (cheating) of IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and summoned these accused for March 3.
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"There will be a third-party assessment. It will start getting rolling in January or February next year." The government is also committed to provide washed coal from October, 2017 in view of environment-related concerns.
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The statement comes after a landmark climate change deal in Paris with the approval of India, China and the US, after days of tough negotiations with the legally-binding pact seeking to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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The next round of coal mines auction will be notified on Friday, Coal Secretary Anil Swaroop told media.
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"DGCI&S data reveals that import of coal has come down for the fourth consecutive month. In October 2015, it is down by 5.10 percent over October 2014," Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said in a tweet.
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The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its approval to a scheme that would allow power distribution companies (discoms) in select states to convert their debt into state bonds, as well as roll out a host of steps to improve efficiency at power plants.
