The minimum import price on ingots and billets has been fixed at USD 362 per tonne, for flat rolled and hot rolled steel at USD 445-500 per tonne and semi-finished steel at USD 341-362 per tonne.
Yielding to steel ministry requests, the government on Wednesday hiked import duty on long steel products from 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent and that of flat steel product from 7.5 percent to 10 percent. The import duty on stainless steel products remained unchanged.
Sesa Sterlite had bid for nine coal blocks and due to technical glitch it could not qualify in the technical rounds. Financial bids will be opened for two coal blocks on saturday - Talabira-I for the power sector and Sial Goghri which is for the non regulated sector.
Though Sarda Energy‘s realisations have been 2-3 percent slower than earlier quarter for Q3 FY14, operational performance for Q3 has been extremely well and efficiency from all the fronts has reflected in the company‘s overall performance. GD Mundra, Director, Sarda Energy & Minerals spoke about the results & his outlook for the company.
The Union Cabinet has approved changes to the Mines and Minerals Act. The proposed changes were to make auction the preferred mode to sell important minerals.
Earlier, an ordinance on coal was introduced on October 20 after the Supreme Court scrapped over 200 coal block allocations. It was valid till the January 4 as the life-span of an ordinance is only six weeks since the inception of a Parliament session.
Director GD Mundra says the company would make all efforts to win back coal block de-allocated by the Supreme Court but if it fails to, it has sufficient fall-back in the form of a restarted iron-ore operation.