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1 Ministries of Power, Coa, NRE & Mines Government of India Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States & UTs. rd th 3 & 4 May 2017, New Dehi

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3 Ministries of Power, Coa, NRE & Mines Government of India Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States & UTs. rd th 3 & 4 May 2017, New Dehi

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5 SL. NO Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. INDEX PAGE NO. 1. Minutes of The Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States 5 th th and Union Territories (UTs) hed on 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat 2. Action Taken Report on Resoutions Adopted at Conference of Power, New & 31 th th Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States/UTs hed on 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat 3. Action Taken Report on the Resoutions adopted with reference Ministry of Mines at the 61 Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States/UTs hed on th th 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat AGENDA ITEMS 1 24X7 Power for A Strategies and action pan for 100% househod eectrification and Smart metering IT enabement in Distribution and onine feeder monitoring Reeased of Report-Annua Integrated Rating of Utiities Report by PFC Power Reforms Merit order dispatch and integration of renewabes Simpification of tariff categories of consumers Therma Pooed tariff for NTPC pants Ash management system (Launching of mobie App) and Sensitize States to 106 use treated sewage water in therma power pant 4. Energy Conservation Energy Efficient Agricuture Pumps Cyber Security and Promotion of Digita Payments Cyber Security in Power Sector Promotion of Payments through Cards and Digita Means 118 3

6 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. AGENDA ITEMS 6. Ministry of New & Renewabe Energy Guideines for Renewabe Energy Projects Ministry of Coa Fexibiity in utiization of domestic coa for reducing the cost of power generation (Toing) Use of domestic coa instead of Imported coa Ministry of Mines Auction Preparedness of bocks for aready under preparation by the States Status of project impementation under Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kayan Yojana 134 (PMKKKY) 8.3 Curbing iega mining through Mining Surveiance System (MSS) with Specific 134 Reference to Iega sand Mining 8.4 Minor minera rues 135 4

7 Minutes of The Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and Union Territories (UTs) hed on th th 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat

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9 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. MINUTES OF THE CONFERENCE OF Minutes of The Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and Union Territories (UTs) th th hed on 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat The Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States/UTs was hed on 7th-8th October at Vadodara. The Conference was chaired by Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines. As the Conference was hed in Gujarat, accordingy Hon'be Minister of Energy, Govt. of Gujarat was invited to co-chair the Conference. The Conference was attended by 21 Ministers from States/UTs and 13 States/UTs were represented by Secretaries/Pr. Secretaries aong with heads of power utiities. Address by Secretary (Mines): 2. Union Secretary (Mines) highighted the deveopments and initiatives undertaken in the mining sector. He intimated that 16 bocks of mines had aready been auctioned and out of which additiona revenue of Rs. 47,000 crore wi be generated. He requested the States Governments concerned to ook into the matter for resoving the issues for expediting auction of bocks incuding the bocks which were annued earier. 3. He mentioned that the new scheme "Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kayan Yojana" (PMKKKY) is going to make paradigm shift in mining sector by directy addressing the wefare of mining affected popuation. He urged the States to prepare & impement good projects under District Minera Fund (DMF) for benefitting oca communities in the spirit of the PMKKKY. He further informed that the Nationa Minera Exporation Trust (NMET) is exporing the possibiity of discovering new mines by using conventiona method as we as aero-geophysica survey. 4. He pointed out that more than 200 cases for grant of mining eases are pending on account of cearances from State Government and Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Cimate Change (M/o EF & CC) Government of India. He sought the cooperation of the concerned State Governments and requested that a cases need to be foowed up for its eary disposa. He aso suggested that Mining Surveiance System shoud be adopted for minor mineras by the States to curb the iega mining as it woud aso hep in sustainabe deveopment of mines and minera sector. He stressed that a states which have not yet notified Rues for Minor Mineras must do so expeditiousy. Address by Secretary (Power): 5. Secretary (Power) in his opening remarks stated that the prime focus of the Ministry of Power is to reduce the cost of power so that 24X7 eectricity is avaiabe to a at an affordabe price. In order to achieve this objective, a number of measures have been taken by the Ministry of Power, incuding reduction in transmission and distribution osses. 6. He asserted that reduction of AT&C osses is basicay a governance issue and need to be deat with by the State Governments with firm poitica wi. He emphasized that feeder monitoring system woud cover a the urban feeders and a the rura feeders woud be incuded on priority basis graduay. He acknowedged that rura eectrification in 7

10 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Arunacha Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam are facing some probems. He urged that the renewed focus shoud be on ensuring access of eectricity to each househod in rura areas. 7. He emphasized that the Government's commitment to achieve the target of 175 GW of renewabe energy within specified time frame, fuy integrated to the grids. As regards integration of renewabe energy in the grid, he mentioned that there are some issues and that the Ministry of Power is in the process of resoving the same. He pointed out that the therma power pants are required to go in for retrofitting for environmenta emission norms compiance due to new guideines issued by M/o EF & CC. He informed that the Centra Eectricity Authority (CEA) is working out the demand projection for 2017 and He aso emphasized that the States shoud pro-activey impement the energy efficiency initiatives taken by Ministry of Power. Address by Secretary (Coa): 8. Secretary (Coa) in his address stated that with cooperation of the State Governments, issues reated to coa suppy have been resoved and that probems reated to quaity have been argey addressed through the mechanism of 3rd party samping. He urged the states to anayse as to why there is sti import of coa when there was indigenous coa avaiabe with the Coa India Ltd. (CIL). He underined that the State power generating companies be impressed to pay up its dues to CIL for the coa that they have aready received. Address by Secretary (MNRE): 9. Secretary, MNRE emphasized on the need for deveoping innovative pricing structures by the States to bring down tariff for Soar, Wind or Integrated projects. The main goa is to achieve the target assigned by the Hon'be Prime Minister. He aso emphasized on commissioning of 17 GW projects in the current financia year. He added that the State Noda Agencies (SNA) and Association of Renewabe Energy Agencies need to be strengthened. He informed that the additiona Soar Parks of 20,000 MW capacity and another 10,000 MW under farmers' scheme were under consideration. The new financia instruments and fow of capita from Word Bank, ADB Loca Banks wi pay an important roe to achieve the target of 175 GW by He said MNRE is in the process to make an equity fund of USD 2 Biion to hep the oca companies in Renewabe Energy (RE) Sector. He then invited the dignitaries in foundation stone aying ceremony of Ata Akshay Urja Bhawan in New Dehi, schedued on 19th October, He aso emphasized that RE Sector needs to be supported by the States in terms of timey payments for the energy consumed by them. It was informed that the proposa for renewa of Tripartite Agreement among RBI, Centra PSUs incuding SECI and the States is under consideration of the Government of India with incusion of Soar Power suppied from projects owned by the CPSUs and from projects under Government of India Schemes. 8

11 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Address by Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines: 11. Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines extended a warm wecome to a the participants and deegates. He expressed his peasure that the meeting is being hed within 4 months and announced that Hon'be Energy Minister, Govt. of Gujarat woud be the Co-Chairman of the proceedings. He stated that a 4 ministries under him are working in tandem with the focus to achieve good governance through good economics. 12. He stated that rura eectrification process has sowed down. He opined that there shoud be a mechanism to rectify any shortcomings in the process of impementation. He stressed that there is a need to be more vigiant, transparent and accountabe and accordingy the working stye shoud be reoriented. He stressed the importance of transparency and accountabiity and observed that use of digita appications ike URJA Mitra, Vidut Pravah, and other apps woud be hepfu in this regard. He aso informed that in order to ensure rea time monitoring of coa production, transportation & distribution, new apps woud be aunched shorty which woud be hepfu in improvement of accountabiity as we as transparency in the coa sector. He stressed on the importance of faster data fow from the States as it woud be in their own interest, which wi enabe quick fund transfer. He emphasized the firm resove of the Govt. to provide eectricity to every househod by Hon'be Union Minister observed that, in the ong run, UDAY wi be instrumenta in growth of power demand. He expressed his satisfaction that in a short span of six months, UDAY has achieved severa miestones. He urged those states which have not yet signed the MOU under UDAY to make up their mind and to sign the same for the arger benefit of the Indian power sector. 14. He further emphasized that coa import woud be reduced to zero and India wi be in a position to export coa to the neighboring countries. He urged the states to expedite auction of maximum possibe number of minera bocks during the year and address causes for non-auctioning of various minera bocks. He stressed the importance of fast tracking of mining projects and urged the State representatives to foow up the projects vigorousy. He mentioned that 30% of royaty wi go into the DMF for the deveopment of district affected by mining. The directions have been issued by the Centra Government under section 20A in regard to the impementation of PMKKKY under DMF. He aso expressed his desire that the State shoud set up DMF in case of minor minera aso. 15. Hon'be Union Minister emphasized the need for the production of ow cost RE. He suggested that hydro power, incuding power from arge hydro power projects can be considered as RE. He expressed his concern that instead of sourcing RE from soar and wind projects which are must-run, some States are procuring power from exchange in short term. This practice shoud be discouraged and he urged the States to promote RE. He aso expressed his concern that some States are not adhering to mandatory Renewabe Purchase Obigation (RPO). 9

12 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Power Distribution: 16. Joint Secretary (Distribution), Ministry of Power highighted the various features of UDAY scheme. He mentioned about eectrification of remaining viages in mission mode and that it is necessary to know whether eectrified viages were getting eectricity. He appreciated the action taken by the Government of Bihar for putting at a mechanism, thereby ensuring suppy of eectricity to BPL househods. He aso informed that Ministry of Power has set-up a working group with Ministry of Rura Deveopment to ensure suppy of eectricity to each househod, based on census He aso mentioned about the tenders foated under DDUGJY and IPDS for procurement of smart meters. 17. Secretary (Power), Govt. of India suppemented JS (Distribution) and reiterated the importance of feeder monitoring in both urban and rura areas. He has requested the States to ensure the porting of the data of feeders on a common onine patform so that the information coud be used by the DISCOMs/State managements as a manageria too to identify oss pockets. The States were requested to extend cooperation in porting the data onine. 18. Govt. of Keraa raised the issue of oss funding being restricted under UDAY ony through State government guaranteed/issued Bonds and the same wi have to be within the FRBM imits. 19. It was carified that UDAY is an optiona scheme and that the States woud have to weigh the benefits. The objective behind this cause was to ensure commitment from both the States and DISCOMs for a sustainabe debt eve. 20. Government of Bihar raised concerns on the difficuties for getting working capita oans and short term oans from the Banks. It was carified that the Working capita provisions under UDAY are cear and the matter has been carified in detai in the recent meeting with Indian Bank Association (IBA) and Bankers. As regards other short term debt requirements, it was carified that an understanding has been deveoped, according to which Genera Purpose DISCOM Bonds with State Government guarantee can be issued which can be subscribed by the Banks. 21. Joint Secretary (Distribution), Ministry of Power mentioned that information under IT enabement in both rura and urban areas woud be avaiabe in the pubic domain. Simiary, Vidyut Pravah App aso discoses the demand and suppy of the power avaiabe in the grid on a rea time basis. Therefore, it is important that a the States/ DISCOMs ensure that the data is synchronized onine and is duy sanitized. 22. On a query from Tami Nadu, it was carified that under the Urja Mitra, DISCOMs woud be paid the charges for the push SMS notifications to the Consumers. 23. Government of Karnataka raised the issue of different agencies and systems working on the onine integration of feeders in rura and urban areas. As a arge number of substations in the States have both rura and urban feeders, it woud be better to have a common agency and system for the same. It was decided that the Ministry of Power woud examine this suggestion for further appropriate action. 24. State governments were advised to prepare bueprints for grid and off-grid connectivity of househods/ settements. 25. Further, it was suggested that the various Apps in the pubic domain woud be inter-inked with each other so that the pubic woud be empowered to draw their concusions. 10

13 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 26. Under RAPDRP, more than feeders are to be onine, out of which ony about feeders are onine so far. There is a need to ensure that a the communicabe feeder's data get ported to the Nationa Power Porta at the eariest. It is therefore important that a the States / DISCOMs work activey and cooperate with PFC to get the information upoaded on the onine porta. 27. Smart Grids are the way forward for ensuring the ast mie reiabiity in reaizing 24X7 Power for a. The Nationa Smart Grid Mission (NSGM) wi handhod States in assisting with various Business modes/ Service Modes, with or without viabiity gap funding, capped at 30% of the project cost for instaing smart meters and smart grids. Sampe Service modes were shared in the Conference. 28. It was informed that the price of Smart meters is coming down. Aggregation of demand woud put a further pressure on the prices of smart meters to come down. If States agree to indicate their requirements, then the possibiities for a centraized procurement can be expored. Suggestions from the State Governments were soicited to take the process forward as CEA has aready issued the commercia specifications of the advanced metering infrastructure. 29. States may decide on their state specific roout pans for the Smart meters, whether it be area wise or feeder wise in terms of the Nationa Tariff Poicy and as per previous deiberations. CEA has recommended that the smart meters shoud be roed out preferaby as an end to end soution. 30. ED, REC made a presentation on rura eectrification eaborating the steps taken in a mission mode for eectrification of the remaining viages in the country. It was emphasized that the States shoud eectrify a the remaining viages in the country before December, 2016 as per the agreed timeines, except Bihar, Chhattisgarh and West Benga, which have agreed to compete the viage eectrification by March, The presentation aso highighted the need for timey action by the power utiities for eary energization of the viages once the infrastructure is created and reease of BPL connections as per the State ist. The issue reating to sign boards both in uneectrified and intensivey eectrified viages as we as engravement of word "DDUGJY" in a major materias was aso highighted. 31. Even after around one year of sanction of new projects under DDUGJY, Karnataka, Assam, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Meghaaya, Sikkim, Dadra Nagar Havei and Goa are yet to submit the recasted DPRs. States were requested to send the same to REC at the eariest. The issue reating to non-execution of Tripartite Agreements by the States and consequent deay in reease of funds for commencement of works was aso highighted. 32. States were aso impressed upon for providing access of eectricity to a househods by December 2018 so as to achieve 100% eectrification of househods. In the updated GARV App, Base Househod data and viages sanctioned in XII Pan/DDUGJY woud be refected. Further, in the App, eectricity connection detais (viz. Name, Consumer No. and Mobie No.) are required to be updated by DISCOM/PMA using ogin access. Updated GARV App wi have additiona features ike Distribution Transformer monitoring, separate dashboard for DISCOM MDs and engagement of District Administration and Citizen in the Househod eectrification process. 33. It was suggested that States may adopt SECC-2011 (Socio Economic Caste Census) data for providing free eectricity connections in rura areas. It was decided to soicit the views of States on practicabiity and impications of adopting SECC-2011 data under DDUGJY. 11

14 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 34. It was agreed that states woud utiise funds aready sanctioned under DDUGJY new projects for creation of necessary eectricity infrastructure to provide access to eectricity to househods (both APL and BPL) on priority. 35. Depending upon the stages of eectrification in the States, timeines were agreed for achieving 100% househod eectrification as under: West Benga, Haryana, Keraa, Goa, Himacha Pradesh,Tami Nadu and UTs by March Sikkim, Assam, Odisha, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh by March 2018 Maharashtra, Teangana and Chhattisgarh by March 2017 (Except LWE Areas) and March 2018 (incuding LWE Areas) Jammu & Kashmir by 15th August 2017 Bihar: 20 akh Househods by March 2017 & a remaining househods by December 2018 Uttar Pradesh: 90 Lakh Househods by March 2018 Uttarakhand and other remaining States by December For ast mie connectivity and APL Househod Eectrification, it was suggested that States may avai funding through REC with a onger repayment tenure of years with competitive interest rates. 37. Govt of Bihar stated that the Project Management Agency (PMA) charges under DDUGJY is 0.5% of the project cost which is inadequate and requested for its enhancement appropriatey. Secretary (Power) mentioned that the PMA charges under DDUGJY were fixed by CCEA whie approving the scheme and added that REC shoud examine the matter and bring it to DDUGJY Monitoring Committee of MoP. 38. ED, REC (Ms. Ritu Maheshwari) made a detaied presentation on urban feeder monitoring, IT enabement of 2600 towns. She aso covered the main features of Urban Jyoti Abhiyan (URJA) App. 39. A presentation on Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Meter depoyment scenario in India was given by Director, Nationa Smart Grid Mission-Project Monitoring Unit. The concept of AMI was briefy expained. A case study of smart meter depoyment for around 9000 consumers at Tunda, UP was aso presented wherein it was demonstrated that the cost of entire depoyment was recovered in ess than one year. Cost-Benefit anaysis of current operations and smart meter operations were shown. Utiities were requested to go for AMI depoyment keeping in ine with the mandate for smart meter depoyment under UDAY and factoring in the strong business case for such a depoyment. 12

15 Soar Grid Connected Power: Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 40. The cumuative target is MW of soar power to be achieved by 31st March, With present instaed capacity of 8600 MW, another 8400 MW is to be added in remaining 6 months. PPAs of around 9700 MW have been signed, which needs to be competed before 31st March, States were requested to put a efforts to compete these projects before 31st March, Letter of Intent (LOI) has been issued in some states but PPA has not been signed, particuary in Jharkhand and Haryana, due to the issues reated to the approva of tariff, by the Reguators. 42. Some Soar projects are ready for commissioning before the date of commissioning mentioned in PPAs. The concerned Discoms were requested to aow such projects for eary commissioning so that the target for coud be met. 43. Fresh tenders for addition of more than 20,000 MW RE need to be foated by the end of this financia year in order to achieve the target of MW for next financia year. 44. Athough Centra Government is foating tenders with SECI & NTPC under different scheme, State Governments aso need to foat tenders of approx thousand MW by March, 2017 to achieve the targets set for next year. 45. The critica issue of pending dues from DISCOMs is causing anxiety and concern to the deveopers of soar and wind power projects. States were requested to ook into the issue. In order to ensure payment of dues, it was suggested that the States may open a dedicated Escrow Account for purchase of RE. The Payment Guarantee Mechanism (PGM) is proposed as a short terms soution and the Word Bank has come forward with 470 Miion PGM in this regard. 46. As regards Renewabe Purchase Obigation (RPO), it was informed that States are agging behind and some states have shortfa of approx. 90%. States were informed that Ministry of Power has issued year-wise Soar RPO trajectory upto The soar RPO requirement for is 2.75%. States were requested to meet the soar RPO requirements without fai. 47. The soar park scheme may be a game changer for achieving the target of Nationa Soar Mission. Under this scheme, 34 soar parks with a tota capacity of 20,000 MW have been approved in different states. The EFC Note has aready been approved for the enhancement of the scheme and Cabinet approva is awaited. After its enhancement, the tota target under this scheme woud be 40,000 MW. The DPRs for 17 out of 34 soar parks have been prepared, and has been arranged for 9 soar parks and financia cosure is done in 5 soar parks. 48. The Word Bank has come forward to do the funding for infrastructure in addition to the MNRE grant of Rs.20 Lakhs per MW for each soar park. The Word Bank wi faciitate $200 miions of infrastructure oan under IBRD and CTF at the rate of 0.25 %. Madhya Pradesh has shown keen interest for requirement of $70-80 Miions for 4 soar parks and the window is open for a other states. The funding wi fow through MNRE to the states at the pre-decided rate of 8.50% which means the currency risk wi be taken care by MNRE. The repayment has 5 year moratorium period and 15 year repayment period. 13

16 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Soar Roof Top: 49. For soar roof-top system, MNRE is providing subsidy/incentive of 30% for genera category States (70% for Specia category States) for instaation on residentia, househod, institutiona, Government or PSUs buidings. Government of India has withdrawn the capita subsidy support for commercia and industria sector due to their tariff competitiveness. 50. The utiities have an advantage that they do not have to go for short-term and high cost purchases during day-time and can meet their RPO obigations. The states of Tami Nadu, Gujarat, Dehi, Karnataka and Maharashtra are eading in the Scheme impementation. 51. A pane of 900 technicay and commerciay quaified agencies have been finaised to take up these projects. The ist is avaiabe on MNRE web-site to faciitate smaer roof-tops. 52. MNRE is deveoping an army of 'Suryamitra' which can be approached through mobie App created by the Ministry. An onine porta caed 'SPIN' has been set up. A the reevant data for roof top soar projects wi be avaiabe on the porta. 53. MNRE has tied up with ISRO for geo-tagging of a of these pants using ISRO's Vedas porta which wi be inked on MNRE's web-site. 54. A tota sanction of 1300 miion doars has been received from the Word Bank, KFW, ADB and NDB and funding wi be through SBI, PNB, Canara Bank and IREDA at the rate of ess than 10%. 55. MNRE has initiated the process of accumuating the demand for 3 acs systems of a tota capacity of 500 MWp. The financia bids have been evauated and wi be awarded soon. 56. PPA and EPC agreements have been standardized which wi be shared with a the Ministries and DISCOMs. 57. In order to achieve the target of 5000 MW of roof-top capacity in Phase II Scheme, the PSUs, DISCOMs and urban oca bodies have been identified as foca centres. 58. The draft of mini-grid poicy is avaiabe on MNRE web-site. Wind Power: 59. In order to faciitate fufiment of non-soar RPO by the DISCOMs of non-windy States, MNRE has sanctioned a scheme under which 1000 MW ISTS connected wind power projects woud be seected through open competitive bidding process foowed by e-reverse auction. The PTC India Ltd. has been seected as trading company, who wi sign PPA with Wind power deveopers and back to back PSA with DISCOMs at a pooed price of tota bids. Ministry of Power has aready issued an order, waiving the ISTS charges and osses for inter-state transmission of wind. 60. MNRE is aso in the process of issuing new guideines for wind power deveopment in the country. The new guideines wi address issues incuding timey competion of projects, free avaiabiity of wind resource data, reguatory compiance, improved micrositing, heath and safety, decommissioning pan etc. 14

17 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 61. MNRE has issued Repowering Poicy for od and sma capacity wind turbines providing faciitative framework for repowering. States to faciitate repowering by augmentation of transmission system, providing additiona foot prints and aowing PPA or third party sae for additiona generation. 62. MNRE aso came out with draft wind-soar hybrid poicy aiming to 10 GW of hybrid power by The stakehoders' comments on draft poicy were under examination. States were requested to impose no connectivity and transmission charges for injecting additiona power through hybridization of existing wind/soar pant, in case no augmentation of transmission system is required. Further, simiar provision may aso be made for the existing Biomass pants going for Hybridization. 63. Proper forecasting and scheduing of wind power is required to address the chaenges of grid security and stabiity. Mode reguations have aready been issued by FoR (Forum of Reguators) and State of Karnataka has aready finaized these reguations. Other States have been requested to finaize the forecasting and scheduing reguations for wind and soar. 64. States were aso requested to impose the intra-state transmission charges for wind on the basis of kwh instead of KW basis as appicabe in the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. 65. GST is ikey to be introduced soon and the same may impact the cost of renewabe power generation. States were requested to aow pass through of such impact to generators. 66. Other critica issues incuding non-signing of PPA, deay in payment to renewabe generators, "Must run status" were aso discussed and Hon'be Union Minister suggested to resove these issues in an earnest manner. He aso requested the non-windy States to communicate their requirement under 1000 MW wind bid. 67. The status of compiance of RPO and issue of increasing REC inventory were discussed and States were requested to ensure RPO compiance by the DISCOMs and aso ensure RPO to be aigned with RPO trajectory issued by MoP. 68. The Govt. of Tami Nadu raised the issue of managing grid with high share of in-firm renewabe power and stated that the band of 250 MW under deviation settement mechanism need to be reconsidered. It was informed that this windy season, the State has absorbed around 10 BU of wind power by backing down the conventiona power. He further stated that State DISCOMs have to pay fixed charges on conventiona power and backing down such power imposes additiona burden on the DISCOMs and suggested that in such cases the DISCOMs shoud be adequatey compensated. It aso suggested that assistance may be provided under PSDF for such renewabe rich states. 69. Hon'be Union Minister suggested to form a sub-group incuding TN, POSOCO, CEA, MoP and NTPC to study the financia impact to DISCOMs on backing down conventiona power for aowing must run to renewabe power and prepare suitabe scheme to compensate Discoms. 70. The Govt. of Andhra Pradesh suggested that DISCOMs shoud be given incentives for RPO compiance. 71. The Govt. of Karnataka stated that use of renewabe for captive and open access is increasing and such consumption may be accounted under RPO of Discoms. 15

18 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 72. The Govt. of Madhya Pradesh suggested that ISTS waiver shoud aso be given to captive and open access consumers. Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines directed MoP to take a view on the issue. 73. Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines agreed that the compiance of RPO need to be incentivize. He suggested to form a committee comprising of Principa Secretary (Energy), Tami Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and CMD, NTPC to suggest suitabe scheme for this purpose. 74. Later a presentation was made by representative of the renewabe energy industry highighting the major probems indicating payment deays, need for more evacuation faciities and the issue of GST. Hon'be Ministers and senior state officers present assured the industry that a their concerns woud be addressed in a time bound manner. ck. Presentation by Joint Secretary, Ministry of Coa: 75. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Coa informed about the status ofcoa suppy between Apri to September He requested States to take up outstanding undisputed dues of State Genco as a standing item in monthy review meetings of energy departments and devise schedue for timey payment. Outstanding disputed dues of State Genco shoud be addressed in ADRM. The constitution, operationamechanism and issues that can be resoved in ADRM were presented. Dues not taken up in ADRM shoud be deemed to be undisputed. He informed that some States are yet to participate in ADRM. 14 meetings of ADRM has been hed so far and many issues have been resoved. He aso informed that third party samping, where tripartite agreement for 355 MT of coa was signed, has been put in pace to address the concern of quaity issues. Samping resuts sha be put on web porta by 3st December The two modes of coa rationaization were discussed. One the distance based rationaization wherein movement of MT of coa has been rationaized and annua savings of Rs crores has been achieved and second was efficiency based rationaization where fexibiity in use of coa has been offered to the power producers with an option to aggregate ACQ and aocate more coa to the more efficient units. The State Gencos were requested to get the ACQ aggregated, sign side agreement with the Coa Company and operationaize efficiency based coa suppy matrix for their different units in terms of the poicy. 77. It was informed that on account of coa import substitution withdomestic coa, the country has saved about Rs 20,000 crore in the year and about Rs 4844 crore in the first four months of the current year. The strategy for the individua unit wise imports in the State genco category was discussed and it emerged that the efforts of the coa companies woud ead to a repacement of MT of Imported coa quantity by March 2017 out of the tota MTquantity which is probabe import quantity. The eements of the import substitution strategy incuded a one to one discussion with the users, shifting of part FSA to High Grade coa where PI is not evied, Third party samping by CIMFR for quaity assurance and other customer friendy measures ike consumer friendy measures in Specia Forward e-auction for power sector. States were urged tosubstitute imported coa with domesticcoa. 16

19 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Interaction with CEOs from Private Sector 78. An interactive session was hed with private payers in the power sector to get a feed back from them on various issues facing the sector. The interaction highighted the foowing issues:- Non-acceptance of CPRI test certificates in many Countries Use of TBCB process for States PSUs to encourage domestic suppiers, as part of Make In India campaign Address by Hon'be Union Minister for Raiways: 79. Hon'be Union Minster for Raiways informed that India was first Country to create Renewabe Energy department. India hopes to become the argest RE power producer in the word. He stressed the need for States and Center to work as a team to achieve ambitious target of RE. He emphasized that Smart Stations are required for Smart Cities for which eectricity is required. States shoud make a efforts to provide eectricity to Raiways. Medica coeges coud be set up with constructed in raiways hospitas where sufficient space is avaiabe. Hon'be Union Minister suggested that meeting may be caed upon every Wednesday between MoP and Raiways to sort out a transmission reated issues on the ines of mechanism evoved with the Ministry of Coa. Remarks by Hon'be Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, NRE and Mines: 80. Hon'be Union Minister emphasized that the need to process every singe iter of water coming out from coa mines up to 3 eves i.e. drinking water, ground water recharge and river recharge eves. Waste water from therma power pants shoud be treated and utiized. Distribution icense has been given to Indian Raiways and it can buy power directy from generators. Hon'be Union Minister requested States to et Raiways buy their power directy. SECI was requested to provide soar power to Raiways without financia impication. 81. Hon'be Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, NRE and Mines suggested that soar projects coud be instaed on unused raiway ines. He aso suggested to expore use of sma wind turbines to utiize the movement of air when a train moves. Energy efficiency measures incuding use of LED bubs shoud be promoted in Raiways and 100 % green Raiways shoud be targeted in 5 years. 82. Hon'be Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, NRE and Mines requested Raiways Ministry to form a committee with members from Raiways, MoP, CEA, POSOCO to frame guideines for crossing of raiway ines by transmission ines so that process of approva for such crossing coud be expedited. 83. He assured that a mechanism wi be set-up for hoding meeting every Wednesday between MOP and Raiways to sort out a transmission reated issues. 17

20 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. HYDRO 84. A detaied presentation of draft Hydro Power Poicy incorporating inputs and suggestions received from various stakehoders was made. It was decided that:- a) A copy of the presentation wi be shared with a the State Governments for their comments. b) 22 financiay stressed/staed projects wi be reviewed in detai individuay by SS (BPP) / JS (Hydro) aong with the concerned stake hoders, incuding States, FIIs, MNRE, IPPs, CERC, CEA etc. to expore how these projects coud be made viabe / restarted. Genera understanding derived from this study may be used for finaising Hydro Power Poicy proposa. The process may be competed in the next 3 months. c) Hydro power may be deemed as renewabe energy, proposa for required approva may be processed. d) Incentive avaiabe to sma hydro power projects upto 25 MW may be extended to the hydro power projects upto 100 MW. e) Extending ow cost credit to hydro power projects and access to NCEF wi be expored. Green sovereign tax free bonds, interest subsidy, priority sector status for ending to hydro are options to be expored for reducing the cost of financing. f) Hydro power may be incuded under RPO as a separate component. g) Possibiity of despatching "Ceanest Power First" may be referred for further examination to the Committee examining merit order issues. h) Possibiity of 50 year depreciation period for civi work of hydro projects may be expored. Energy Efficiency & Energy Conservation: 85. Specia Secretary, MoP, stressed upon industria efficiency, ighting efficiency and Standard & Labeingprogramme. He urged States to adopt Energy Conservation Buiding Code (ECBC). He detaied various enabing measures being taken to provide support to States in this regard. 86. MD,EESL in his presentation mentioned that Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management (DSM) are important toos to contro the demand of eectricity. It was informed that under UJALA Scheme crore LED bubs have been distributed in 24 States/UTs. Distribution of LEDs wi start in Chandigarh, Punjab, J&K and Teangana in November MoU has been signed between Ministry of Urban Deveopment and EESL for energy efficiency measurement. 18

21 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Transmission 87. Joint Secretary (Transmission), Ministry of Power gave the status of the impementation of guideines issued on 15th October, 2015 for determining compensation for RoW for transmission ines. She stated that as per the decision taken in the Power Minister's Conference hed in Goa, a committee has been constituted on 11th August, 2016 under the chairmanship of Additiona Secretary, Ministry of Power. The committee is deiberating on issues, incuding the innovative technoogy that can be used to reduce the RoW probems. 88. A presentation was given by PGCIL on the possibe technica soutions for reducing the RoW issues, especiay the urban areas. 89. A the States were requested to give their suggestion to the committee so that the guideines can be finaised at the eariest. 90. Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines suggested that CEA and PGCIL shoud work together to come out with innovative soutions. It was suggested that CEA with PGCIL shoud prepare a compendium of approved designs so that these design coud be adopted by States. Captive Generation and Open Access 91. Deputy Secretary, MoP, presented various issues reating to captive generation and open access. One of the major issues discussed was frequent switching by open access consumers which is impacting the financia performance of Discoms. 92. Hon'be Union Minister suggested that a efforts need to be made to sette the issues reating to captive generation and open access and suggested that if required, the matter coud be taken up with forum of Reguators to address Reguatory issues. Nationa Eectricity Pan 93. Draft Nationa Eectricity Pan was presented by CEA which has been prepared in consutation with various stakehoders. This Pan presents demand projection for the period from 2017 to 2022 and aso perspective projection for It was agreed that NEP document sha first be circuated to States for comments before putting up in pubic domain for pubic comments. 19

22 Fexibiity in Utiisation of Coa : 94. Joint Secretary (OM) informed that pursuant to the Cabinet decision on the proposa for aowing fexibiity in utiisation of domestic coa amongst generating stations to reduce the cost of power generation, CEA has aready issued the methodoogy on 8th June, NTPC and some of the States have identified the areas for benefit under the scheme and have been abe to reduce their cost of generation. 95. States were requested to pro-activey utiise the provisions of fexibiity in utiisation of domestic coa to further reduce the cost of power generation. It was informed that CIL has aready requested the State Genco and NTPC for signing of suppementary agreements. Presentation by Secretary (Mines) Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 96. Union Secretary (Mines), gave a presentation on "Minera Sector: Chaenges & Way Forward" which extensivey covered the agenda items, such as the status of e-auction of major mineras, DMF, NMET, NMEP, SDF (Star Rating), MSS, use of space in mining technoogy and saved cases under section 10A(2)(c) of the MMDR Act The saient issues discussed under each item, during the presentation, are summarized beow. 97. E-Auction of major minera bocks: Union Secretary (Mines) congratuated the States on the overwheming response for the 16 bocks which have been auctioned successfuy.he asked the States to re-auction the 37 bocks which were annued in phase-i auction by eiminating the issues raised by the registered bidders. The 61 bocks in pipeine shoud be expedited and put up in auction in by the respective States. Further, State Governments may aso give their suggestions for any changes required in the existing auction process. 98. Setting up of District Minera Foundations (DMF) and Nationa Minera Exporation Trust (NMET): Union Secretary (Mines) stressed for expediting the set up of DMF in a districts by the States, coection of a due contributions under DMF& NMET, identifications and impementation of projects under Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kayan Yojana (PMKKKY). Hon'beMoS (IC) for Mines mentioned that the Government has notified the date for coection of DMF for coa aso from the date of effecting of the MMDR Amendment, 2015 i.e and asked the States expedite coection of DMF as this fund is to be used for the deveopment & wefare programme in mining areas. He suggested that simpified & dedicated MIS web porta need to be deveoped for easy monitoring, coection and tracking of DMF. He appreciated the porta deveoped by Odisha Government on DMF and he asked the States to deveop their onine porta for DMF on the same ines.it was informed that Taminadu has not yet notified DMF rues due to oca eections. 99. Processing of saved ML appications under section 10A(2) : Union Secretary (Mines) mentioned that 80% of the saved Mining Lease (ML) cases under Section 10A(2)(c) are pending with State Government eve viz. for decision with the Mining or Forest or Revenue department or District Administration, etc. The rest of the cases are pending with the MoEFCC and some with IBM, which are being pursued with them for expediting. Further, Hon'be Minister of State (IC) for Mines stressed that these ML appications, if saved and executed, woud resut in oss to the States exchequers as they are ikey to be the fastest ones to start minera production and thus their expeditious processing is of utmost importance, not ony because it woud affect the minera deveopment, but wi aso have its impact on 20

23 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. the downstream and aied sector. Further, the opening of new mines woud aso contribute to empoyment of oca peope and woud hep in enhancement in GDP. Union Secretary (Mines) expressed that apsing of these mining ease appications, which are under process of acquiring cearances, is ikey to resut in a ot of itigations, if not expedited. The State Governments were asked to conduct weeky review to expedite the decisions by a State Government Departments Minor minera rues - Union Secretary (Mines) emphasized the adoption of transparent systems for grant of minera concessions for minor mineras by the States, as per the directive issued by the Ministry, under 20A. Andhra Pradesh expressed difficuty in instituting auctions for minor mineras. Hon'be MoS (IC) for Mines suggested to examine using the First cum First Serve combined with the Swiss Chaenge method Nationa Minera Exporation Poicy (NMEP): Union Secretary (Mines) stated that the exporation work is crucia for the growth of mining sector and informed that Tota 100 minera bocks have been identified for regiona exporations which have potentia for resources of various mineras. The mechanism/procedure to be foowed to carry out reverse auctioning/aotment of exporation bocks under the New Minera Exporation Poicy, is being finaized by the Ministry of Mines, for engaging private exporers through revenue sharing mechanism. The concurrence of the State Governments wi be sought on the same Star Rating of the Mines: Union Secretary (Mines) mentioned that the star rating of mines (with buit-in compiance mechanism for environment and forest safeguards) introduced recenty, wi recognize good performers in the mining sector for their efforts and initiatives in impementing the Sustainabe Deveopment Framework and urged the States that the system of Star Rating may aso be adopted for minor mineras Curbing iega Mining through Mining Surveiance System (MSS)- Union Secretary (Mines) informed that the MSS project is being deveoped by IBM aong with BISAG, Gujarat and informed that initia triggers of the ikey unauthorized mining areas have aready been identified and woud be transmitted to the States soon after the aunch of MSS. He stressed that it is essentia on part of the States to get the fied verification done of the trigger generated by the MSS within the specified time period of 7 days, through the district eve officers. The State Governments are aso required to nominate district wise noda officers, to whom the triggers shoud be sent and they may be registered with the MSS. Union Secretary (Mines) again emphasised the State Governments to give their commitment to support the Government of India initiative of deveopment of Mining Surveiance System (MSS) for major mineras and aso take up the project of Sateite Mapping and Digitization for Minor Mineras Union Secretary (Mines)then invited Ministers / Officias of the State Governments to share their views and issues. The gist of views expressed by the State Ministers / Officias is as under Odisha: Shri Deepak Mohanty, Director Mines of Odisha requested that the saved ML appications under section 10A(2) which require forest cearances, may be pursued from MoEF&CCfor grant of genera approva under Section 2(iii) under FC Act meeting the deadine of ease execution by He aso informed that tota 973 projects have been identified under DMF for which 288 crores have been aocated Teangana: Shri BRV Sushee Kumar, DMGof Teangana raised concern about the high sae price fixed of imestone by the Indian Bureau of Mines, which woud be used for auction of minera bocks and is creating unwarranted distortion. 21

24 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs Rajasthan :Shri R.K. Nawaya, Additiona Director (Mines), Director of Mines & Geoogy, proposed that the requirement of minimum 3 bidders for conducting auction may be reviewed and aotment to any participating bidders may be aowed. He aso raised the issue of eigibiity for grant of the saved ML cases of area ess than 5.0 hectares to be considered under the M(OTAHCEM)CR, 2015 and requested for necessary guidance by the Centra Government Punjab: Hon'be Minister, Industries & Commerce & Technica Education & Industria Training, Punjab, Shri Madan Mohan Mitta, sought assistance from the Centra Government regarding Environment Cearances (EC) to be taken by the State Government for auctioning and grant of eases of minor mineras as necessitated by the High Court judgment. He said it has been eading to huge deays in auctioning and starting mining operations in the State. He suggested that the Ministry of Mines may consider having a joint meeting with MoEFCC to take up this issue Hon'be MoS (IC) for Mines in his concuding remarks reemphasised that the utimate objective of a poicies and endeavors of the Government shoud be for the hoistic deveopment which shoud transcend to the common man. Conference Resoutions 110. Based on the deiberations on the Agenda and major decisions/concusions arrived at in the Conference, a draft of the Conference Resoutions was prepared. However, in view of the paucity of time, this draft coud not be shared in the Conference. It was decided that the draft of Resoutions wi be sent by emai to a the States/UTs with a request to send the feedback within one week Further, it was decided that after incorporating the feedback/comments from States/UTs on the draft Resoutions, the same woud be treated as the Fina Resoutions adopted at the Conference The Conference Resoutions finaized on the above ines are given at Annexure-I 22

25 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE CONFERENCE POWER DISTRIBUTION 1 1) States which have not yet joined Ujwa Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY) and desire to do so, wi give in-principa approva by 30th November, 2016 and finaize MoU atest by 31st December, ) A states under UDAY wi upoad operationa parameters monthy and financia parameters quartery on UDAY porta for better monitoring. 3) States wi award the works reating to eectrification of un-eectrified viages atest by 30th November 2016 and remaining works sanctioned under Deen Daya Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) not ater than 31st March ) States wi eectrify a remaining un-eectrified viages by 31st December, 2016 except those in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) areas and remote hiy regions, for which efforts wi be made by the concerned States to eectrify such viages by 1st May, ) States reiterate to ensure access to eectricity to 100 % househods in viages by 15th August, 2017 by organizing camps in these viages with on-spot competion of necessary formaities and reease of eectricity connections on priority. 6) States aso reiterate the timeines as shown beow, agreed in the previous conference hed in June 2016 to provide eectricity access to 100% househods in a the viages in India : S.No. State Target 1. West Benga, Haryana, Keraa, Goa, March 2017 Himacha Pradesh, Tami Nadu and UTs 2. Maharashtra, Teangana and Chhattisgarh March 2017 (Except LWE Areas) March 2018 (LWE Areas) 3. Jammu & Kashmir 15th August Sikkim March Assam, Odisha, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh March Bihar 20 akh Househods by March 2017 and a remaining househods by December Uttar Pradesh 90 Lakh Househods by March 2018 and baance by March Uttarakhand and other remaining States December 2017 Annexure-I 1 A references to States may be read to incude UTs. 23

26 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 7) States wi provide Feeder wise tagged consumer information as per the Common Data Format provided by REC Transmission Power Company Ltd by 15th November ) States wi integrate existing Meter Data Acquisition System (MDAS), DISCOM website & Ca centers with Urja Mitra App and agree to provide customer information about outages through SMS by December ) States wi share Master data and Java Script Object Notation (JSON) formats of 11KV Rura Feeders for integration with Nationa Power Porta (NPP)by October, ) States wi faciitate instaation of modems & impementation of Rura Feeder Monitoring Scheme by December, ) States wi submit proposas for IT enabement of baance 2600 towns under Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme (IPDS) by 31st December, 2016, to enabe sanction by Ministry of Power (MoP) by 31st January, Subsequenty, States wi appoint impementing agencies progressivey but not ater than 31stMarch 2017 so as to compete projects no ater than 30th September, ) States wi ensure issuance of NIT and subsequent award for IPDS projects not ater than 31st December, 2016 and caim next tranche of grant as per scheme guideines by 1st January, ) States (Rajasthan-81, J&K-21, Tami Nadu-21, Puducherry-4, Goa-2, Arunacha-10, Nagaand-9, Mizoram-8, Meghaaya-4, Manipur-1, Bihar-1, Jharkhand-5) wi ensure Go-Live of baance towns under R-APDRP Part-A (IT) by 31stMarch ) States (especiay UP, Rajasthan, TN, Haryana) wi ensure porting data from 11KV feeders of Go-Live towns to Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring System (UDFMS) and ensure pushing transaction data on reguar basis by 31st March States wi use the feeder monitoring data as a management too to ensure better power reiabiity and AT&C oss reduction as per UDAY. 15) States wi ensure sanitization of data provided for 'URJA App' to ensure accurate information about various "consumer-reated" and "DISCOM-reated" parameters in pubic domain. 16) A States to ensure provision of reporting power theft on '1912' and make it to-free. HYDRO POWER 17) Incentives avaiabe to Sma Hydro Projects 25 MW may be extended to the power project up to 100 MW. For others, a case to case approach may be considered. 18) Entire Hydro Power may be deemed as Renewabe Energy. 19) Extending ow cost credit to Hydro Power Project and access to NCEF wi be expored. 20) Hydro Power may be incuded under RPO, as a separate component. 24

27 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. TRANSMISSION 21) States resove to adopt the guideines issued by MoP via OM No. 3/7/2015-Trans dated 15th October, 2015 to have a uniform methodoogy for payment of compensation for "Right of Way" of transmission ines 22) A Committee having Members from Ministry of Power, Raiways, CEA and POSOCO wi be constituted to frame guideines for permitting crossing of raiways ines by transmission ines so that process of approva for such crossing coud be expedited. UTILIZATION OF URS POWER 23) States sha use the option of ending URS (Un-requisitioned surpus) power to reduce the cost of power. If required, necessary changes in reguation / grid code may be made to provide for a deemed approva by procurers up to, say 50%,in case where producers do not give current on time. 24) A committee wi be constituted on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairman, CEA with ToR given in Annexure. FLEXIBILITY IN COAL UTILIZATION 25) State sha use the provision of fexibiity in coa utiization to further reduce the cost of power. MoC sha faciitate in getting the suppementary agreement signed at the eariest with NTPC and States. Nationa Eectricity Pan (NEP) 26) States to study the draft Nationa Eectricity Pan prepared by Centra Eectricity Authority (CEA) and circuated to the States and send their comments by end of November CAPTIVE GENERATION 27) States to send their comments on the proposed amendment in the Rues put on website by MoP (of Captive Power generation provisions). States wi send changes required in reguatory framework, if any, to be taken up with the FOR (Forum of Reguators) within two weeks. ENERGY CONSERVATION 28) States sha mandate ECBC by December 2017 with the objective that new commercia buidings wi be ECBC compiant. 29) States wi estabish ECBC Ces by December 2017 in State Urban Deveopment Departments / PWDs to support and impement energy efficient buiding construction. 30) States wi impement state-wide reguatory mechanism by December, 2017 for mandating the use of BEE Star Labeed pump sets, as far as possibe, for new agricuture pump connection, incuding soar pump sets. 25

28 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 31) States wi endeavour to impement the Agricuture Demand Side Management projects through Savings based mode or Annuity based mode as suitabe for their States. COAL RELATED ISSUES 32) State GENCOs sha cear the outstanding over dues in monthy instaments atest by 30th June, 2017 (with interest/surcharge). In case of any disputed dues, the same may be setted with mutua reconciiation or aternativey the issues may be taken up in ADRM for speedy resoution. 33) In view of sufficient indigenous coa avaiabiity uness technicay required or commercia commitments to be fufied, States sha endeavour that no coa based power pant sha import coa. RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES 34) Potentiay rich areas for instaation of Renewabe Energy Projects wi be identified and advance panning for evacuation and transmission of Renewabe Power in an effective and coordinated manner wi be carried out. Necessary reguations to do advance panning and creation of infrastructure wi be drawn up for consutation by 31st January, ) Around 19,300 MW of soar capacity has been tendered. States wi faciitate setting up of these power pants and sign PPAs/PSAs as may be required, addressing issues of uniatera termination, "must run" status and payment security mechanisms. 36) Fresh tendering of soar projects incuding PPAs, up to 20,000 MW wi be done by 30th June, ) States wi ensure speedy impementation of renewabe projects, by addressing issues of Land acquisition, PPAs and Grid Integration. 38) Renewabe Energy projects are "must-run" projects and, therefore, they are not to be backed down. In case of backing down charges wi have to be paid. Necessary reguations in this regard wi be formuated. 39) For promotion of Soar Rooftop Projects, SERCs of Jammu & Kashmir, Teangana, the North-eastern States, except Assam and Tripura sha notify reguations to aow net metering / feed-in-tariff by 31st March, Further, DISCOMs wi streamine their processes and deveop onine mechanisms by 30th June, 2017 to provide grid connection. 40) Kisan Urja Sashaktikaran Mission (KUSUM), the proposed Mission, woud enabe optima use of wasteands and encourage hybridization and enabe earning of additiona income for farmers. Concerned DISCOMs sha be responsibe for providing connectivity of the farmer's soar PV power project to the nearest grid sub-station. 41) States wi adhere to time schedues for achieving Project commissioning of over 25,000 MW of renewabe energy projects during the Financia Year. If need be, SPDs who compete & commission the projects ahead of schedued date wi not be penaized. 42) The States sha discourage squatting on wind-potentia sites by ensuring strict adherence to the time ine fixed for instaation of projects. 26

29 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 43) The States sha take stock of wind power projects aready commissioned and yet to be commissioned. The issue of signing PPAs wi be resoved in a time bound manner. 44) The States sha evove a mechanism for timey payment to soar and wind power generators and wi ensure that in no case the deay is more than 2 months (paid with interest). Further, transparent norms wi be foowed for payment to a parties equitaby, with no discrimination between soar and wind generators. 45) For smooth impementation of AJAY scheme for street ights' eectrification, eigibe States and DISCOMs sha provide fu assistance to EESL for instaation by 31st March, Simiary for providing soar amps to students, the States sha provide support to IIT-Bombay and SECI. 46) In off-grid schemes, the States sha foow transparent process for ensuring competitive pricing in a segments of renewabe energy. Such projects can be used for energizing the un-eectrified househods. 47) The State sha start forecasting and scheduing of wind power either by utiizing the services of NIWE or any other agency. Metering and communication infrastructure sha be instaed at a pooing stations for rea time generation of data. The States sha finaize and notify the mechanism for scheduing and forecasting for intra-state transmission of soar and wind power. 48) Intra-state transmission & wheeing charges wi be evied on kwh basis to faciitate both intra and inter-state sae of renewabe power in the States. 49) Issues reating to (a) Uniatera termination (b) "Must-run" and (c) Payment security wi be addressed urgenty so that tariff of renewabe energy comes down further. 50) The States sha initiate capacity buiding of DISCOMs/SERC/SNA officers and entrepreneurs in renewabe energy. Further, each State may nominate maximum number of officia for training programme being conducted by MNRE. 51) States sha make rooftop soar instaation mandatory in a new buidings / constructions. Further, the process of approva for rooftop soar subsidy and approva of buiding pan approved by Municipa Corporation sha be integrated. MINES 52) Preparedness for e-auction of Major Minera Bocks - The State Governments to auction 61 proposed bocks in and aso re-auction the annued bocks by March, Further, the States wi expedite the minera auction preparedness for and beyond. 53) Setting up of District Mining Fund (DMF) - The DMF wi be set up in a districts by the States. Identifications and impementation of projects under DMF wi be done in ine with the PMKKKY (Prandhan Mantri Khanij Kayan Yojna) Scheme. The DMF needs to be constituted for Minor Mineras aso by the State Government. The State Governments shoud reguary monitor coection of funds and impementation of schemes under DMF, to give the maximum benefit to oca peope. The State Governments to prepare the porta for PMKKKY on the ines of the porta deveoped by State Government of Odisha. 27

30 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 54) Exporation Poicy - The mechanism/procedure to be foowed for reverse auctioning/aotment of exporation bocks under the New Minera Exporation Poicy wi be finaized by the Ministry of Mines. 55) Star Rating - The system of Star Rating aso to be adopted by the State Governments for minor mineras. 56) Curbing Iega Mining through Mining Surveiance System (MSS) - The States are required to get the fied verification done of the trigger generated by the MSS within the specified time period of 7 days, though the district eve officers. The district wise noda officers to whom the triggers shoud be sent may be registered with the MSS. The State governments wi support the Government of India initiative of deveopment of Mining Surveiance System (MSS) for major mineras. The State Governments to take up the project of Sateite Mapping and Digitization for Minor Mineras by January, ) Minor minera rues - Transparent systems for grant of minera concessions for minor mineras wi be adopted by the States, so that the directives issued by the Ministry, under 20A, shoud be in pace by December, ) Processing of saved Mining Lease Appications before 11th January, The State Governments wi expedite the decisions on cases pending for action or decisions, on their part, in respect to the mining ease appications which were saved by Section 10A (2) (c) of the MMDR Act, subject to fufiment of the conditions of the previous approva or of the etter of intent, with the time ine up to 11th January,

31 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. CONSTITUTION OF MERIT ORDER DISPATCH COMMITTEE Annexure Merit Order Dispatch Committee is required for integration of Renewabes under the Chairmanship of chairman CEA with JS (OM) as Member Secretary and Members from POSOCO, Reguators and States incuding Southern Regiona LDC. Terms of reference Transparency in observance of Grid Code for merit order dispatch. Addressing any reguatory issue for making renewabes and Hydro as must run in merit order. Amendment in Grid Code if required in view of the above. Incentivizing states who compy with RPO and measures to dissuade non-compiance. Any other reated measures to promote renewabe energy and sustain ong term growth in the sector. Piot projects for soar/wind energy demonstration project (of about 10 MW) for utiizing in non-generating times (ean). Suitabe baancing mechanism/spinning reserve for the handing arge quantity of RE (not possibe presenty under the prevaiing DSM). Revising RPO/RE mechanism to provide the necessary poicy/incentive framework. 29

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35 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Action Taken Report on Resoutions Adopted at Conference of Power, New & Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States/UTs th th hed on 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab 1. 1 States which have not yet joined Ujwa Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY) and desire to do so, wi give in-principa approva by 30th November, 2016 and finaize MoU atest by 31st December, Joined but ony for operationa parameters. N.A. Joined Joined Joined 2. A states under UDAY wi upoad operationa parameters monthy and financia parameters quartery on UDAY porta for better monitoring. Data is being upoaded reguary. - Data is being upoaded reguary. Data is being upoaded reguary. Reguary being upoaded 3. States wi award the works reating to eectrification of un-eectrified viages atest by 30th November 2016 and remaining works sanctioned under Deen Daya Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) not ater than 31st March Work is under progress. Aready eectrified. Aready eectrified. Aready eectrified. Aready eectrified. 4. States wi eectrify a remaining un-eectrified viages by 31st December, 2016 except those in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) areas and remote hiy regions, for which efforts wi be made by the concerned States to eectrify such viages by 1st May, Work in progress Aready eectrified. - Work in progress. Aready eectrified 5. States reiterate to ensure access to eectricity to 100 % househods in viages by 15th August, 2017 by organizing camps in these viages with on-spot competion of necessary formaities and reease of eectricity connections on priority. Noted Aready eectrified - Noted Aready eectrified. 6. States aso reiterate the timeines as shown beow, agreed in the previous conference hed in June 2016 to provide eectricity access to 100% househods in a the viages in India S.No. State Target 1. West Benga, Haryana, March 2017 Keraa, Goa, Himacha Pradesh, Tami Nadu and UTs 2. Maharashtra, Teangana March 2017 (Except Target wi be achieved by Dec., % eectrified. - N.A. N.A. 1 A references to "States" may be read to incude "Uts". 33

36 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 AndhraPradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab and Chhattisgarh LWE Areas) March 2018 (LWE Areas) 3. Jammu & Kashmir 15th August Sikkim March Assam, Odisha, March 2018 Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh 6. Bihar 20 akh Househods by March 2017 and a remaining househods by December Uttar Pradesh 90 Lakh Househods by March 2018 and baance by March Uttarakhand and December 2017 other remaining States 7. States wi provide Feeder wise tagged consumer information as per the Common Data Format provided by REC Transmission Power Company Ltd by 15th November Action is under progress. Information Submitted Action taken. Competed Information avaiabe with PSPCL. Action wi be taken on avaiabiity. 8. States wi integrate existing Meter Data Acquisition System (MDAS), DISCOM website & Ca centers with Urja Mitra App and agree to provide customer information about outages through SMS by December Action is under progress. N.A. Action taken. Impementation is under progress. Under process 9. States wi share Master data and Java Script Object Notation (JSON) formats of 11KV Rura Feeders for integration with Nationa Power Porta (NPP)by October, Action taken. Existing data shared with REC. Action taken N.A. Action taken 10. States wi faciitate instaation of modems & impementation of Rura Feeder Monitoring Scheme by December, Action is under process. Existing data shared with REC. Action taken. 90% Competed. Action under progress 11. States wi submit proposas for IT enabement of baance 2600 towns under Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme (IPDS) by 31st December, 2016, to enabe sanction by Ministry of Power (MoP) by 31st January, Subsequenty, States wi appoint impementing agencies progressivey but not ater than 31stMarch 2017 so as to compete projects no ater than 30th September, DPRs submitted to PFC. Existing data shared with REC. Work in progress. N.A. Action under progress. 34

37 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab 12. States wi ensure issuance of NIT and subsequent award for IPDS projects not ater than 31st December, 2016 and caim next tranche of grant as per scheme guideines by 1st January, Action under process. N.A. Action taken. Sanctioned amount being utiized. Action under progress. 13. States (Rajasthan-81, J&K-21, Tami Nadu-21, Puducherry-4, Goa-2, Arunacha-10, Nagaand-9, Mizoram-8, Meghaaya-4, Manipur-1, Bihar-1, Jharkhand-5) wi ensure Go-Live of baance towns under R-APDRP Part-A (IT) by 31stMarch Action competed. N.A. - Achieved N.A. 14. States (especiay UP, Rajasthan, TN, Haryana) wi ensure porting data from 11KV feeders of Go-Live towns to Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring System (UDFMS) and ensure pushing transaction data on reguar basis by 31st March States wi use the feeder monitoring data as a management too to ensure better power reiabiity and AT&C oss reduction as per UDAY. Noted Existing data shared with REC. Being practiced. N.A. Action taken. 15. States wi ensure sanitization of data provided for 'URJA App' to ensure accurate information about various consumer-reated and DISCOM-reated parameters in pubic domain. Action is under progress. Existing data shared with REC. Being practiced. Noted Action under progress 16. A States to ensure provision of reporting power theft on '1912' and make it to-free. Impemented Ni Impemented. Action initiated. Impemented 17. Incentives avaiabe to Sma Hydro Projects 25 MW may be extended to the power project up to 100 MW. For others, a case to case approach may be considered. 18. Entire Hydro Power may be deemed as Renewabe Energy. 19. Extending ow cost credit to Hydro Power Project and access to NCEF wi be expored. 20. Hydro Power may be incuded under RPO, as a separate component. - Ni Noted N.A. Action taken. - Ni Noted N.A. Action taken. - Ni Noted N.A. N.A. - Ni Noted N.A. Agreed 21. States resove to adopt the guideines issued by MoP via OM No. 3/7/2015-Trans dated 15th October, 2015 to have a uniform methodoogy for payment of compensation for Right of Way of transmission ines. Under consideration. N.A. Adopted. Noted Under consideration. 35

38 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab 22. A Committee having Members from Ministry of Power, Raiways, CEA and POSOCO wi be constituted to frame guideines for permitting crossing of raiways ines by transmission ines so that process of approva for such crossing coud be expedited. - N.A. Noted. Noted No action taken yet States sha use the option of ending URS (Un-requisitioned surpus) power to reduce the cost of power. If required, necessary changes in reguation / grid code may be made to provide for a deemed approva by procurers up to, say 50%,in case where producers do not give current on time. A committee wi be constituted on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairman, CEA with ToR given in Annexure. - N.A. Noted. Noted Reates to PSERC. - N.A. Noted Noted N.A. 25. State sha use the provision of fexibiity in coa utiization to further reduce the cost of power. MoC sha faciitate in getting the suppementary agreement signed at the eariest with NTPC and States. Action initiated. N.A. Being impemented. N.A. Under progress. 26. States to study the draft Nationa Eectricity Pan prepared by Centra Eectricity Authority (CEA) and circuated to the States and send their comments by end of November States to send their comments on the proposed amendment in the Rues put on website by MoP (of Captive Power generation provisions). States wi send changes required in reguatory framework, if any, to be taken up with the FOR (Forum of Reguators) within two weeks. 28. States sha mandate ECBC by December 2017 with the objective that new commercia buidings wi be ECBC compiant. Comments wi be furnished. N.A. Under study. No comments Comments sent. Noted. N.A. Under study. No comments. Comments submitted. -Action taken. N.A. Done Noted Not reated to PSPCL. 29. States wi estabish ECBC Ces by December 2017 in State Urban Deveopment Departments / PWDs to support and impement energy efficient buiding construction. Action under progress. N.A. The ECBC Ce is being formed. Noted Not reated to PSPCL. 30. States wi impement state-wide reguatory mechanism by December, 2017 for mandating the use of BEE Star Labeed pump sets, as far as possibe, for new agricuture pump connection, incuding soar pump sets. Action taken. NA Done Noted Action taken. 36

39 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab 31. States wi endeavour to impement the Agricuture Demand Side Management projects through Savings based mode or Annuity based mode as suitabe for their States. Action initiated. N.A. Being impemented. Action wi be taken in due course Action under process. 32. State GENCOs sha cear the outstanding over dues in monthy instaments atest by 30th June, 2017 (with interest/surcharge). In case of any disputed dues, the same may be setted with mutua reconciiation or aternativey the issues may be taken up in ADRM for speedy resoution. Work in process. N.A. Work in process. N.A. Action under process 33. In view of sufficient indigenous coa avaiabiity uness technicay required or commercia commitments to be fufied, States sha endeavour that no coa based power pant sha import coa. Action taken. N.A. No need. N.A. No proposa to import Coa. 34. Potentiay rich areas for instaation of Renewabe Energy Projects wi be identified and advance panning for evacuation and transmission of Renewabe Power in an effective and coordinated manner wi be carried out. Necessary reguations to do advance panning and creation of infrastructure wi be drawn up for consutation by 31st January, Action in process. N.A. Done Sha be taken on demand. Issue reates to PEDA. 35. Around 19,300 MW of soar capacity has been tendered. States wi faciitate setting up of these power pants and sign PPAs/PSAs as may be required, addressing issues of uniatera termination, must run status and payment security mechanisms. Action under progress. N.A. Under process. Wi encourage soar deveopers. Action taken. 36. Fresh tendering of soar projects incuding PPAs, up to 20,000 MW wi be done by 30th June, Action under progress. N.A. Tendering for 4000 MW has been done Action wi be taken. Reates to PEDA. 37. States wi ensure speedy impementation of renewabe projects, by addressing issues of Land acquisition, PPAs and Grid Integration. Action under progress. N.A. Being done. Noted Action under process. 38. Renewabe Energy projects are must-run projects and, therefore, they are not to be backed down. In case of backing down charges wi have to be paid. Necessary reguations in this regard wi be formuated. Noted N.A. Done Noted Impemented. 37

40 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab 39. For promotion of Soar Rooftop Projects, SERCs of Jammu & Kashmir, Teangana, the North-eastern States, except Assam and Tripura sha notify reguations to aow net metering / feed-in-tariff by 31st March, Further, DISCOMs wi streamine their processes and deveop onine mechanisms by 30th June, 2017 to provide grid connection. Action in process NA - Noted. Reguations stands issued. 40. Kisan Urja Sashaktikaran Mission (KUSUM), the proposed Mission, woud enabe optima use of wasteands and encourage hybridization and enabe earning of additiona income for farmers. Concerned DISCOMs sha be responsibe for providing connectivity of the farmer's soar PV power project to the nearest grid sub-station. - NA Action wi be taken. Action wi be taken based on feasibiity. Action under process. 41. States wi adhere to time schedues for achieving Project commissioning of over 25,000 MW of renewabe energy projects during the Financia Year. If need be, SPDs who compete & commission the projects ahead of schedued date wi not be penaized. Action under progress NA Being foowed. Noted. Reates to PEDA. 42. The States sha discourage squatting on wind-potentia sites by ensuring strict adherence to the time ine fixed for instaation of projects. Action under progress. Ni Discouraged. N.A. Reates to PEDA 43. The States sha take stock of wind power projects aready commissioned and yet to be commissioned. The issue of signing PPAs wi be resoved in a time bound manner. Action taken. Ni Reguary reviewed and action being taken. N.A. Reates to PEDA. 44. The States sha evove a mechanism for timey payment to soar and wind power generators and wi ensure that in no case the deay is more than 2 months (paid with interest). Further, transparent norms wi be foowed for payment to a parties equitaby, with no discrimination between soar and wind generators. Noted. NA Impemented. Noted Impemented. 45. For smooth impementation of AJAY scheme for street ights' eectrification, eigibe States and DISCOMs sha provide fu assistance to - Action in progress. Being provided. Wi be supported. N.A. 38

41 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 1 Karnataka 2 Lakshadweep Actions taken 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Goa 5 Punjab EESL for instaation by 31st March, Simiary for providing soar amps to students, the States sha provide support to IIT-Bombay and SECI. 46. In off-grid schemes, the States sha foow transparent process for ensuring competitive pricing in a segments of renewabe energy. Such projects can be used for energizing the un-eectrified househods. Noted N.A. Transparent process is being foowed. Noted Reates to PEDA/GoP. 47. The State sha start forecasting and scheduing of wind power either by utiizing the services of NIWE or any other agency. Metering and communication infrastructure sha be instaed at a pooing stations for rea time generation of data. The States sha finaize and notify the mechanism for scheduing and forecasting for intra-state transmission of soar and wind power. Action in progress. N.A. Action wi be taken. N.A. Reates to GoP/PEDA. 48. Intra-state transmission & wheeing charges wi be evied on kwh basis to faciitate both intra and inter-state sae of renewabe power in the States. Noted N.A. Under process. Noted. Reates to PSERC. 49. Issues reating to (a) Uniatera termination (b) Must-run and (c) Payment security wi be addressed urgenty so that tariff of renewabe energy comes down further. - N.A. Action taken. Noted Action taken 50. The States sha initiate capacity buiding of DISCOMs/SERC/SNA officers and entrepreneurs in renewabe energy. Further, each State may nominate maximum number of officia for training programme being conducted by MNRE. Noted - Action initiated. Noted Impemented. 51. States sha make rooftop soar instaation mandatory in a new buidings / constructions. Further, the process of approva for rooftop soar subsidy and approva of buiding pan approved by Municipa Corporation sha be integrated Noted - Noted Noted Reates to GoP/PEDA 39

42 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya 1. 2 States which have not yet joined Ujwa Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY) and desire to do so, wi give in-principa approva by 30th November, 2016 and finaize MoU atest by 31st December, Finaization under process Joined Joined Joined MoU signed 2. A states under UDAY wi upoad operationa parameters monthy and financia parameters quartery on UDAY porta for better monitoring. MoU is under execution. Action under process Reguary being upoaded Action under process Noted 3. States wi award the works reating to eectrification of un-eectrified viages atest by 30th November 2016 and remaining works sanctioned under Deen Daya Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) not ater than 31st March Wi be competed Aready eectrified. Aready eectrified. A viages eectrified Action under progress 4. States wi eectrify a remaining un-eectrified viages by 31st December, 2016 except those in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) areas and remote hiy regions, for which efforts wi be made by the concerned States to eectrify such viages by 1st May, Action under process. Aready eectrified N.A. A viages eectrified Noted 5. States reiterate to ensure access to eectricity to 100 % househods in viages by 15th August, 2017 by organizing camps in these viages with on-spot competion of necessary formaities and reease of eectricity connections on priority. Action under process. Under process. N.A. Access to eectricity avaiabe Noted 6. States aso reiterate the timeines as shown beow, agreed in the previous conference hed in June 2016 to provide eectricity access to 100% househods in a the viages in India Wi be competed on time 96.21% househods have aready eectrified. Avaiabe to 100% Househods. Action is under process Noted S.No. State Target 1. West Benga, Haryana, March 2017 Keraa, Goa, Himacha Pradesh, Tami Nadu and UTs 2. Maharashtra, Teangana March 2017 (Except and Chhattisgarh LWE Areas) March 2018 (LWE Areas) 3. Jammu & Kashmir 15th August Sikkim March Assam, Odisha, March 2018 Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh 2 A references to States may be read to incude UTs. 40

43 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya 6. Bihar 20 akh Househods by March 2017 and a remaining househods by December Uttar Pradesh 90 Lakh Househods by March 2018 and baance by March Uttarakhand and December 2017 other remaining States 7. States wi provide Feeder wise tagged consumer information as per the Common Data Format provided by REC Transmission Power Company Ltd by 15th November Under process. Compied Under process. Work under progress Yet to be registered 8. States wi integrate existing Meter Data Acquisition System (MDAS), DISCOM website & Ca centers with Urja Mitra App and agree to provide customer information about outages through SMS by December Under process. Under process. Activated Under progress Yet to be registered 9. States wi share Master data and Java Script Object Notation (JSON) formats of 11KV Rura Feeders for integration with Nationa Power Porta (NPP)by October, Under process. Under process. Under process Data being upoaded Not yet integrated 10. States wi faciitate instaation of modems & impementation of Rura Feeder Monitoring Scheme by December, Action taken. Action under process. Under process. Noted Wi be impemented 11. States wi submit proposas for IT enabement of baance 2600 towns under Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme (IPDS) by 31st December, 2016, to enabe sanction by Ministry of Power (MoP) by 31st January, Subsequenty, States wi appoint impementing agencies progressivey but not ater than 31stMarch 2017 so as to compete projects no ater than 30th September, Actin under process. Under process. Under process. Proposa Submitted Work under progress 12. States wi ensure issuance of NIT and subsequent award for IPDS projects not ater than 31st December, 2016 and caim next tranche of grant as per scheme guideines by 1st January, Action under process. Work under process. Action under process Work under progress Work under progress 41

44 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya 13. States (Rajasthan-81, J&K-21, Tami Nadu-21, Puducherry-4, Goa-2, Arunacha-10, Nagaand-9, Mizoram-8, Meghaaya-4, Manipur-1, Bihar-1, Jharkhand-5) wi ensure Go-Live of baance towns under R-APDRP Part-A (IT) by 31stMarch N.A. N.A. N.A. 110 Towns decared 'go ine' Achieved 14. States (especiay UP, Rajasthan, TN, Haryana) wi ensure porting data from 11KV feeders of Go-Live towns to Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring System (UDFMS) and ensure pushing transaction data on reguar basis by 31st March States wi use the feeder monitoring data as a management too to ensure better power reiabiity and AT&C oss reduction as per UDAY. Noted. Sha be compied. Under process. Noted Work in progress 15. States wi ensure sanitization of data provided for 'URJA App' to ensure accurate information about various consumer-reated and DISCOM-reated parameters in pubic domain. Noted. Noted Under process. Noted Work in progress 16. A States to ensure provision of reporting power theft on '1912' and make it to-free. Noted is working. Activated Impemented Not yet operationa 17. Incentives avaiabe to Sma Hydro Projects 25 MW may be extended to the power project up to 100 MW. For others, a case to case approach may be considered. 18. Entire Hydro Power may be deemed as Renewabe Energy. Action initiated. N.A. - - Proposed for 30% cost be borne by MNRE Action initiated. No action taken. - - Agreed 19. Extending ow cost credit to Hydro Power Project and access to NCEF wi be expored. Action initiated. May be expored. - - Agreed 20. Hydro Power may be incuded under RPO, as a separate component. Action initiated. May be expored. - - Agreed 21. States resove to adopt the guideines issued by MoP via OM No. 3/7/2015-Trans dated 15th October, 2015 to have a uniform methodoogy for payment of compensation for Right of Way of transmission ines. Action under process Adopted. Under process Being considered Foowed their own poicy 42

45 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya 22. A Committee having Members from Ministry of Power, Raiways, CEA and POSOCO wi be constituted to frame guideines for permitting crossing of raiways ines by transmission ines so that process of approva for such crossing coud be expedited. Noted N.A. N.A. Noted N.A. 23. States sha use the option of ending URS (Un-requisitioned surpus) power to reduce the cost of power. If required, necessary changes in reguation / grid code may be made to provide for a deemed approva by procurers up to, say 50%,in case where producers do not give current on time. Action under process Agreed. Agreed. Option is being utiized Noted 24. A committee wi be constituted on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairman, CEA with ToR given in Annexure. Agreed N.A. N.A. Action being taken N.A. 25. State sha use the provision of fexibiity in coa utiization to further reduce the cost of power. MoC sha faciitate in getting the suppementary agreement signed at the eariest with NTPC and States. N.A. N.A. Under process Action initiated N.A. 26. States to study the draft Nationa Eectricity Pan prepared by Centra Eectricity Authority (CEA) and circuated to the States and send their comments by end of November States to send their comments on the proposed amendment in the Rues put on website by MoP (of Captive Power generation provisions). States wi send changes required in reguatory framework, if any, to be taken up with the FOR (Forum of Reguators) within two weeks. No comments Compied Under consideration No comments. Under consideration. Action is under way. - Comments furnished. Being examined No comments 28. States sha mandate ECBC by December 2017 with the objective that new commercia buidings wi be ECBC compiant. Action initiated. Noted. Reates to HAREDA. Action Initiated Matter is being taken up 29. States wi estabish ECBC Ces by December 2017 in State Urban Deveopment Departments / PWDs to support and impement energy efficient buiding construction. Action under process. Noted Reates to HAREDA Action Initiated Noted 30. States wi impement state-wide reguatory mechanism by December, 2017 for mandating the use of BEE Star Labeed pump sets, as far as possibe, for new agricuture pump connection, incuding soar pump sets. N.A. Noted Compied. Instructions issued Action initiated 43

46 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya 31. States wi endeavour to impement the Agricuture Demand Side Management projects through Savings based mode or Annuity based mode as suitabe for their States. N.A. Noted Under consideration Due to poor response scheme can not be continued Guideines from BEE yet to be received. 32. State GENCOs sha cear the outstanding over dues in monthy instaments atest by 30th June, 2017 (with interest/surcharge). In case of any disputed dues, the same may be setted with mutua reconciiation or aternativey the issues may be taken up in ADRM for speedy resoution. N.A. N.A. Under process. Payments are being made expeditiousy Does not arise 33. In view of sufficient indigenous coa avaiabiity uness technicay required or commercia commitments to be fufied, States sha endeavour that no coa based power pant sha import coa. N.A. N.A. No purchase order paced for coa import since Action taken Does not arise 34. Potentiay rich areas for instaation of Renewabe Energy Projects wi be identified and advance panning for evacuation and transmission of Renewabe Power in an effective and coordinated manner wi be carried out. Necessary reguations to do advance panning and creation of infrastructure wi be drawn up for consutation by 31st January, Saes poicy is being formuated. Action under process. Under process. Work is under progress Noted 35. Around 19,300 MW of soar capacity has been tendered. States wi faciitate setting up of these power pants and sign PPAs/PSAs as may be required, addressing issues of uniatera termination, must run status and payment security mechanisms. Noted Work under process. Noted Action is under progress Noted 36. Fresh tendering of soar projects incuding PPAs, up to 20,000 MW wi be done by 30th June, Noted N.A. Action under process. Tender is under progress Action initiated 37. States wi ensure speedy impementation of renewabe projects, by addressing issues of Land acquisition, PPAs and Grid Integration. Noted Noted Noted Under process Noted 38. Renewabe Energy projects are must-run projects and, therefore, they are not to be backed down. In case of backing down charges wi have to be paid. Necessary reguations in this regard wi be formuated. Noted Noted Wi be taken care of. Noted Noted 44

47 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya 39. For promotion of Soar Rooftop Projects, SERCs of Jammu & Kashmir, Teangana, the North-eastern States, except Assam and Tripura sha notify reguations to aow net metering / feed-in-tariff by 31st March, Further, DISCOMs wi streamine their processes and deveop onine mechanisms by 30th June, 2017 to provide grid connection. Notified Noted. N.A. Noted Reguations notified 40. Kisan Urja Sashaktikaran Mission (KUSUM), the proposed Mission, woud enabe optima use of wasteands and encourage hybridization and enabe earning of additiona income for farmers. Concerned DISCOMs sha be responsibe for providing connectivity of the farmer's soar PV power project to the nearest grid sub-station. Noted Noted Haryana Discoms wi provide grid connectivity to soar power deveopers as per HERC. Tangedw wi provide power evacuation Noted 41. States wi adhere to time schedues for achieving Project commissioning of over 25,000 MW of renewabe energy projects during the Financia Year. If need be, SPDs who compete & commission the projects ahead of schedued date wi not be penaized. Noted Noted. Action taken accordingy. - Noted 42. The States sha discourage squatting on wind-potentia sites by ensuring strict adherence to the time ine fixed for instaation of projects. Noted Noted Agreed. Being foowed Noted 43. The States sha take stock of wind power projects aready commissioned and yet to be commissioned. The issue of signing PPAs wi be resoved in a time bound manner. N.A. Noted Agreed Action under progress Action initiated 44. The States sha evove a mechanism for timey payment to soar and wind power Under consideration generators and wi ensure that in no case the deay is more than 2 months (paid with interest). Further, transparent norms wi be foowed for payment to a parties equitaby, with no discrimination between soar and wind generators. Noted Compied Effects are being made Noted 45. For smooth impementation of AJAY scheme for street ights' eectrification, eigibe States and DISCOMs sha provide fu assistance to EESL for instaation by 31st March, Wi be supported. Under process. - - Noted 45

48 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 6 Sikkim 7 Keraa Actions taken 8 Haryana 9 Tami Nadu 10 Meghaaya Simiary for providing soar amps to students, the States sha provide support to IIT-Bombay and SECI. 46. In off-grid schemes, the States sha foow transparent process for ensuring competitive pricing in a segments of renewabe energy. Such projects can be used for energizing the un-eectrified househods. E-tendering bidding process is being foowed. State has no off grid generators. - Work is under progress e-tendering process impemented 47. The State sha start forecasting and scheduing of wind power either by utiizing the services of NIWE or any other agency. Metering and communication infrastructure sha be instaed at a pooing stations for rea time generation of data. The States sha finaize and notify the mechanism for scheduing and forecasting for intra-state transmission of soar and wind power. N.A. Action wi be taken. Wi be as per HERC Reguations. -do- Noted 48. Intra-state transmission & wheeing charges wi be evied on kwh basis to faciitate both intra and inter-state sae of renewabe power in the States. Sha be incorporated in state poic. Noted. Wi be as per HERC Reguations. It is under Juridiction of TNERC Noted 49. Issues reating to (a) Uniatera termination (b) Must-run and (c) Payment security wi be addressed urgenty so that tariff of renewabe energy comes down further. Sha be incorporated in state poicy. Noted. Wi be taken care of. To impement huge funds in needed Noted 50. The States sha initiate capacity buiding of DISCOMs/SERC/SNA officers and entrepreneurs in renewabe energy. Further, each State may nominate maximum number of officia for training programme being conducted by MNRE. Promoting capacity buiding of offices. Noted Agreed No comment Officias nominated 51. States sha make rooftop soar instaation mandatory in a new buidings / constructions. Further, the process of approva for rooftop soar subsidy and approva of buiding pan approved by Municipa Corporation sha be integrated Incorporated in State poicy. Noted Reates to HAREDA n.a. Under consideration 46

49 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry 1. 3 States which have not yet joined Ujwa Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY) and desire to do so, wi give in-principa approva by 30th November, 2016 and finaize MoU atest by 31st December, MoU signed Appied, under consideration with MoP Request pending Joined Joined. 2. A states under UDAY wi upoad operationa parameters monthy and financia parameters quartery on UDAY porta for better monitoring. Reguary upoaded N.A. N.A. Being done Upoading 3. States wi award the works reating to eectrification of un-eectrified viages atest by 30th November 2016 and remaining works sanctioned under Deen Daya Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) not ater than 31st March Action in progress Action under progress N.A. Under progress A viage eectrified. 4. States wi eectrify a remaining un-eectrified viages by 31st December, 2016 except those in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) areas and remote hiy regions, for which efforts wi be made by the concerned States to eectrify such viages by 1st May, Work in progress Work under progress N.A. Wi be done by March 31,2018 N.A. 5. States reiterate to ensure access to eectricity to 100 % househods in viages by 15th August, 2017 by organizing camps in these viages with on-spot competion of necessary formaities and reease of eectricity connections on priority. Efforts are being made Work under progress N.A. Being impemented Action competed. 6. States aso reiterate the timeines as shown beow, agreed in the previous conference hed in June 2016 to provide eectricity access to 100% househods in a the viages in India Work is under progress Work under progress N.A. In ine with PFA action pan A househods have access. S.No. State Target 1. West Benga, Haryana, March 2017 Keraa, Goa, Himacha Pradesh, Tami Nadu and UTs 2. Maharashtra, Teangana March 2017 (Except and Chhattisgarh LWE Areas) March 2018 (LWE Areas) 3. Jammu & Kashmir 15th August Sikkim March Assam, Odisha, March 2018 Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh 3 A references to States may be read to incude UTs. 47

50 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry 6. Bihar 20 akh Househods by March 2017 and a remaining househods by December Uttar Pradesh 90 Lakh Househods by March 2018 and baance by March Uttarakhand and December 2017 other remaining States 7. States wi provide Feeder wise tagged consumer information as per the Common Data Format provided by REC Transmission Power Company Ltd by 15th November Information provided Work under progress N.A. Avaiabe information provided Action is being taken 8. States wi integrate existing Meter Data Acquisition System (MDAS), DISCOM website & Ca centers with Urja Mitra App and agree to provide customer information about outages through SMS by December Action under progress Action under progress N.A. Base data provided Action under process. 9. States wi share Master data and Java Script Object Notation (JSON) formats of 11KV Rura Feeders for integration with Nationa Power Porta (NPP)by October, Action under progress Action under progress N.A. Under process Action under process. 10. States wi faciitate instaation of modems & impementation of Rura Feeder Monitoring Scheme by December, Work under progress Action under progress N.A. DPR Submitted Acton under process. 11. States wi submit proposas for IT enabement of baance 2600 towns under Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme (IPDS) by 31st December, 2016, to enabe sanction by Ministry of Power (MoP) by 31st January, Subsequenty, States wi appoint impementing agencies progressivey but not ater than 31stMarch 2017 so as to compete projects no ater than 30th September, Action under progress Proposa Submitted N.A. DPR Submitted States wi ensure issuance of NIT and subsequent award for IPDS projects not ater than 31st December, 2016 and caim next tranche of grant as per scheme guideines by 1st January, Action under progress Action initiated Under process Action under progress Action is being taken. 48

51 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry 13. States (Rajasthan-81, J&K-21, Tami Nadu-21, Puducherry-4, Goa-2, Arunacha-10, Nagaand-9, Mizoram-8, Meghaaya-4, Manipur-1, Bihar-1, Jharkhand-5) wi ensure Go-Live of baance towns under R-APDRP Part-A (IT) by 31stMarch N.A. N.A. N.A. Action under progress Not possibe by 31st March, States (especiay UP, Rajasthan, TN, Haryana) wi ensure porting data from 11KV feeders of Go-Live towns to Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring System (UDFMS) and ensure pushing transaction data on reguar basis by 31st March States wi use the feeder monitoring data as a management too to ensure better power reiabiity and AT&C oss reduction as per UDAY. N.A. N.A. N.A. Under progress N.A. 15. States wi ensure sanitization of data provided for 'URJA App' to ensure accurate information about various consumer-reated and DISCOM-reated parameters in pubic domain. Under process Action initiated N.A. Data submitted N.A. 16. A States to ensure provision of reporting power theft on '1912' and make it to-free. Aready in use '1912' To free no. impemented Not covered under scheme To free number estabished Partiay impemented. 17. Incentives avaiabe to Sma Hydro Projects 25 MW may be extended to the power project up to 100 MW. For others, a case to case approach may be considered. MNRE to issue notification Agreed N.A. MNRE to take action N.A. 18. Entire Hydro Power may be deemed as Renewabe Energy. -do- Agreed N.A. MNRE to take action N.A. 19. Extending ow cost credit to Hydro Power Project and access to NCEF wi be expored. 20. Hydro Power may be incuded under RPO, as a separate component. - Not agreed as more fund needed N.A. - N.A. Incuded Agreed N.A. - N.A. 21. States resove to adopt the guideines issued by MoP via OM No. 3/7/2015-Trans dated 15th October, 2015 to have a uniform methodoogy for payment of compensation for Right of Way of transmission ines. Order issued Being considered Compying Under examination Noted 49

52 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry 22. A Committee having Members from Ministry of Power, Raiways, CEA and POSOCO wi be constituted to frame guideines for permitting crossing of raiways ines by transmission ines so that process of approva for such crossing coud be expedited. Being referred to committee Noted - - N.A States sha use the option of ending URS (Un-requisitioned surpus) power to reduce the cost of power. If required, necessary changes in reguation / grid code may be made to provide for a deemed approva by procurers up to, say 50%,in case where producers do not give current on time. A committee wi be constituted on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairman, CEA with ToR given in Annexure. Using Differ in view - Agreed Action initiated. N.A. N.A. - - N.A. 25. State sha use the provision of fexibiity in coa utiization to further reduce the cost of power. MoC sha faciitate in getting the suppementary agreement signed at the eariest with NTPC and States. Noted Ensuring N.A. N.A. N.A. 26. States to study the draft Nationa Eectricity Pan prepared by Centra Eectricity Authority (CEA) and circuated to the States and send their comments by end of November States to send their comments on the proposed amendment in the Rues put on website by MoP (of Captive Power generation provisions). States wi send changes required in reguatory framework, if any, to be taken up with the FOR (Forum of Reguators) within two weeks. 28. States sha mandate ECBC by December 2017 with the objective that new commercia buidings wi be ECBC compiant. 29. States wi estabish ECBC Ces by December 2017 in State Urban Deveopment Departments / PWDs to support and impement energy efficient buiding construction. Under process Action Taken Comments Submitted Submitted No comments. Being sent Action initiated - Submitted No comments Under Process Done Wi be done MOU signed Impemented. Under process Done -do- Done Noted. 30. States wi impement state-wide reguatory mechanism by December, 2017 for mandating the use of BEE Star Labeed pump sets, as far as possibe, for new agricuture pump connection, incuding soar pump sets. Made mandatory Done -do- Being framed Action is being taken. 50

53 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry 31. States wi endeavour to impement the Agricuture Demand Side Management projects through Savings based mode or Annuity based mode as suitabe for their States. N.A. Under consideration -do- Under consideration Noted. 32. State GENCOs sha cear the outstanding over dues in monthy instaments atest by 30th June, 2017 (with interest/surcharge). In case of any disputed dues, the same may be setted with mutua reconciiation or aternativey the issues may be taken up in ADRM for speedy resoution. State conveyed consent N.A. - Action being taken Not appicabe. 33. In view of sufficient indigenous coa avaiabiity uness technicay required or commercia commitments to be fufied, States sha endeavour that no coa based power pant sha import coa. No import is being made Noted - - Not appicabe. 34. Potentiay rich areas for instaation of Renewabe Energy Projects wi be identified and advance panning for evacuation and transmission of Renewabe Power in an effective and coordinated manner wi be carried out. Necessary reguations to do advance panning and creation of infrastructure wi be drawn up for consutation by 31st January, Action under progress Done Work is under progress Under process N.A. 35. Around 19,300 MW of soar capacity has been tendered. States wi faciitate setting up of these power pants and sign PPAs/PSAs as may be required, addressing issues of uniatera termination, must run status and payment security mechanisms. Notified reguation Done through etter of credit Action under progress - Impemented. 36. Fresh tendering of soar projects incuding PPAs, up to 20,000 MW wi be done by 30th June, Proposa submitted Action Initiated Action under Progress Agreed Action initiated. 37. States wi ensure speedy impementation of renewabe projects, by addressing issues of Land acquisition, PPAs and Grid Integration. Being impemented Noted Under Progress Being done N.A. 38. Renewabe Energy projects are must-run projects and, therefore, they are not to be backed down. In case of backing down charges wi have to be paid. Necessary reguations in this regard wi be formuated. Notified Reguation Under consideration Poicy notified Being formuated N.A. 51

54 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry 39. For promotion of Soar Rooftop Projects, SERCs of Jammu & Kashmir, Teangana, the North-eastern States, except Assam and Tripura sha notify reguations to aow net metering / feed-in-tariff by 31st March, Further, DISCOMs wi streamine their processes and deveop onine mechanisms by 30th June, 2017 to provide grid connection. Action under progress Agreed Aready deveoped onine process Done Poicy notified. 40. Kisan Urja Sashaktikaran Mission (KUSUM), the proposed Mission, woud enabe optima use of wasteands and encourage hybridization and enabe earning of additiona income for farmers. Concerned DISCOMs sha be responsibe for providing connectivity of the farmer's soar PV power project to the nearest grid sub-station. Being impemented Under consideration Potentia sha be expored Done N.A. 41. States wi adhere to time schedues for achieving Project commissioning of over 25,000 MW of renewabe energy projects during the Financia Year. If need be, SPDs who compete & commission the projects ahead of schedued date wi not be penaized. Work under progress Under process Action under progress Being done N.A The States sha discourage squatting on wind-potentia sites by ensuring strict adherence to the time ine fixed for instaation of projects. No proposa is pending N.A. N.A. - N.A. 43. The States sha take stock of wind power projects aready commissioned and yet to be commissioned. The issue of signing PPAs wi be resoved in a time bound manner. No proposa is pending N.A. N.A. Action initiated N.A. 44. The States sha evove a mechanism for timey payment to soar and wind power generators and wi ensure that in no case the N.A. N.A. Payment is being made in time deay is more than 2 months (paid with interest). Further, transparent norms wi be foowed for payment to a parties equitaby, with no discrimination between soar and wind generators. Noted Noted. 45. For smooth impementation of AJAY scheme for street ights' eectrification, eigibe States and DISCOMs sha provide fu assistance to EESL for instaation by 31st March, Being impemented Action Being Taken N.A. Under impementation Noted. 52

55 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 11 Chhattisgarh 12 Odisha Actions taken 13 NCT Dehi 14 J & K 15 Puducherry Simiary for providing soar amps to students, the States sha provide support to IIT-Bombay and SECI. 46. In off-grid schemes, the States sha foow transparent process for ensuring competitive pricing in a segments of renewabe energy. Such projects can be used for energizing the un-eectrified househods. Action is under progress Action taken N.A. Being compied with N.A. 47. The State sha start forecasting and scheduing of wind power either by utiizing the services of NIWE or any other agency. Metering and communication infrastructure sha be instaed at a pooing stations for rea time generation of data. The States sha finaize and notify the mechanism for scheduing and forecasting for intra-state transmission of soar and wind power. N.A. N.A. N.A. No wind power project at the operationa stage. N.A. 48. Intra-state transmission & wheeing charges wi be evied on kwh basis to faciitate both intra and inter-state sae of renewabe power in the States. Impemented Action taken Being discussed with DERC N.A. N.A. 49. Issues reating to (a) Uniatera termination (b) Must-run and (c) Payment security wi be addressed urgenty so that tariff of renewabe energy comes down further. Under examination Action taken -do- Sha be compied with N.A. 50. The States sha initiate capacity buiding of DISCOMs/SERC/SNA officers and entrepreneurs in renewabe energy. Further, each State may nominate maximum number of officia for training programme being conducted by MNRE. Being impemented Action taken Nominates Being done Nominating. 51. States sha make rooftop soar instaation mandatory in a new buidings / constructions. Further, the process of approva for rooftop soar subsidy and approva of buiding pan approved by Municipa Corporation sha be integrated Order issued Under consideration Action Taken Under consideration Impemented. 53

56 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam 1. States which have not yet joined Ujwa Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY) and desire to do so, wi give in-principa approva by 30th November, 2016 and finaize MoU atest by 31st December, N.A. Joined N.A. - Joined 2. A states under UDAY wi upoad operationa parameters monthy and financia parameters quartery on UDAY porta for better monitoring. Compied Compied. Compied. - Reguary updated 3. States wi award the works reating to eectrification of un-eectrified viages atest by 30th November 2016 and remaining works sanctioned under Deen Daya Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) not ater than 31st March A Works awarded. Action under process. 100% viages have been eectrified. Action taken. Action initiated. 4. States wi eectrify a remaining un-eectrified viages by 31st December, 2016 except those in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) areas and remote hiy regions, for which efforts wi be made by the concerned States to eectrify such viages by 1st May, Work is under progress. Work is under progress. 100% viages have been eectrified. Competed by 31st March, Action initiated. 5. States reiterate to ensure access to eectricity to 100 % househods in viages by 15th August, 2017 by organizing camps in these viages with on-spot competion of necessary formaities and reease of eectricity connections on priority. Work is under progress. Work is under progress. 100% viages have been eectrified. Work is under progress. Action initiated. 6. States aso reiterate the timeines as shown beow, agreed in the previous conference hed in June 2016 to provide eectricity access to 100% househods in a the viages in India Work is under progress. Sought for extension of time ti March, % viages have been eectrified. Work is under progress. Aready submitted. S.No. State Target 1. West Benga, Haryana, March 2017 Keraa, Goa, Himacha Pradesh, Tami Nadu and UTs 2. Maharashtra, Teangana March 2017 (Except and Chhattisgarh LWE Areas) March 2018 (LWE Areas) 3. Jammu & Kashmir 15th August Sikkim March Assam, Odisha, March 2018 Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh 4 A references to States may be read to incude UTs. 54

57 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam 6. Bihar 20 akh Househods by March 2017 and a remaining househods by December Uttar Pradesh 90 Lakh Househods by March 2018 and baance by March Uttarakhand and December 2017 other remaining States 7. States wi provide Feeder wise tagged consumer information as per the Common Data Format provided by REC Transmission Power Company Ltd by 15th November Work is under progress. Work is under progress. Aready provided. Work is under progress States wi integrate existing Meter Data Acquisition System (MDAS), DISCOM website & Ca centers with Urja Mitra App and agree to provide customer information about outages through SMS by December MDAS integration is under progress. Action is being taken. Action is under progress. Action initiated. Under process. 9. States wi share Master data and Java Script Object Notation (JSON) formats of 11KV Rura Feeders for integration with Nationa Power Porta (NPP)by October, Work is under progress. Action taken. Action taken. Work is under progress. Work is in progress. 10. States wi faciitate instaation of modems & impementation of Rura Feeder Monitoring Scheme by December, Work is under progress. Work is under process. Being reguary upoaded. Work is under progress. Under process. 11. States wi submit proposas for IT enabement of baance 2600 towns under Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme (IPDS) by 31st December, 2016, to enabe sanction by Ministry of Power (MoP) by 31st January, Subsequenty, States wi appoint impementing agencies progressivey but not ater than 31stMarch 2017 so as to compete projects no ater than 30th September, Being impemented. Action is under process. Action is under process. Action is under progress. Under process. 12. States wi ensure issuance of NIT and subsequent award for IPDS projects not ater than 31st December, 2016 and caim next tranche of grant as per scheme guideines by 1st January, Action is under progress. Action is under process. Action is under process. Action under process. Under process. 55

58 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam 13. States (Rajasthan-81, J&K-21, Tami Nadu-21, Puducherry-4, Goa-2, Arunacha-10, Nagaand-9, Mizoram-8, Meghaaya-4, Manipur-1, Bihar-1, Jharkhand-5) wi ensure Go-Live of baance towns under R-APDRP Part-A (IT) by 31stMarch Aready done. N.A. Aready done. N.A. N.A. 14. States (especiay UP, Rajasthan, TN, Haryana) wi ensure porting data from 11KV feeders of Go-Live towns to Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring System (UDFMS) and ensure pushing transaction data on reguar basis by 31st March States wi use the feeder monitoring data as a management too to ensure better power reiabiity and AT&C oss reduction as per UDAY. Data being upoaded. N.A. Data being upoaded. N.A. N.A. 15. States wi ensure sanitization of data provided for 'URJA App' to ensure accurate information about various consumer-reated and DISCOM-reated parameters in pubic domain. Sanitization of data is going on. Reguary upoaded. Sanitization of data is going on. Action is under progress. Action taken. 16. A States to ensure provision of reporting power theft on '1912' and make it to-free. Done Done Done Partiay impemented. Under process 17. Incentives avaiabe to Sma Hydro Projects 25 MW may be extended to the power project up to 100 MW. For others, a case to case approach may be considered. It may not be viabe N.A. N.A. - Under consideration 18. Entire Hydro Power may be deemed as Renewabe Energy. 19. Extending ow cost credit to Hydro Power Project and access to NCEF wi be expored. N.A. N.A. - N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. - N.A. 20. Hydro Power may be incuded under RPO, as a separate component. HEP capacity upto 25 MW is under RPO. Agreed. N.A. - Agreed 21. States resove to adopt the guideines issued by MoP via OM No. 3/7/2015-Trans dated 15th October, 2015 to have a uniform methodoogy for payment of compensation for Right of Way of transmission ines. Under consideration May be taken. Under consideration. Under consideration. Under process. 56

59 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam 22. A Committee having Members from Ministry of Power, Raiways, CEA and POSOCO wi be constituted to frame guideines for permitting crossing of raiways ines by transmission ines so that process of approva for such crossing coud be expedited. Noted. N.A. N.A. - No action. 23. States sha use the option of ending URS (Un-requisitioned surpus) power to reduce the cost of power. If required, necessary changes in reguation / grid code may be made to provide for a deemed approva by procurers up to, say 50%,in case where producers do not give current on time. Not agreed. Comments submitted. Agreed. Action under process. Under process. 24. A committee wi be constituted on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairman, CEA with ToR given in Annexure. N.A. N.A. N. A. - N.A. 25. State sha use the provision of fexibiity in coa utiization to further reduce the cost of power. MoC sha faciitate in getting the suppementary agreement signed at the eariest with NTPC and States. Suppementary agreement signed. Action is under process. Action is under process. Action under process. N.A. 26. States to study the draft Nationa Eectricity Pan prepared by Centra Eectricity Authority (CEA) and circuated to the States and send their comments by end of November Comments submitted Comments Submitted Repy aready sent. Action taken. 27. States to send their comments on the proposed amendment in the Rues put on website by MoP (of Captive Power generation provisions). States wi send changes required in reguatory framework, if any, to be taken up with the FOR (Forum of Reguators) within two weeks. - Comments submitted. Comments submitted. Repy aready sent. Under consideration. 28. States sha mandate ECBC by December 2017 with the objective that new commercia buidings wi be ECBC compiant. Action is under progress. N.A. Under consideration Aready notified. Under consideration. 29. States wi estabish ECBC Ces by December 2017 in State Urban Deveopment Departments / PWDs to support and impement energy efficient buiding construction. Action is under progress. N.A. Under consideration. Action is under process. Under consideration. 30. States wi impement state-wide reguatory mechanism by December, 2017 for mandating the use of BEE Star Labeed pump sets, as far as possibe, for new agricuture pump connection, incuding soar pump sets. Noted. N.A. Under consideration. Action under process. Under consideration. 57

60 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam 31. States wi endeavour to impement the Agricuture Demand Side Management projects through Savings based mode or Annuity based mode as suitabe for their States. Action being initiated. Action being initiated. Action being initiated. Action under progress State GENCOs sha cear the outstanding over dues in monthy instaments atest by 30th June, 2017 (with interest/surcharge). In case of any disputed dues, the same may be setted with mutua reconciiation or aternativey the issues may be taken up in ADRM for speedy resoution. - Action is under process. No outstanding dues. Efforts are being made. No outstanding over dues. 33. In view of sufficient indigenous coa avaiabiity uness technicay required or commercia commitments to be fufied, States sha endeavour that no coa based power pant sha import coa. Noted No panning for future procurement. Noted. Does not import any coa. Agreed. 34. Potentiay rich areas for instaation of Renewabe Energy Projects wi be identified and advance panning for evacuation and transmission of Renewabe Power in an effective and coordinated manner wi be carried out. Necessary reguations to do advance panning and creation of infrastructure wi be drawn up for consutation by 31st January, State faciitates. N.A. State faciitates. Initiatives taken. Under consideration. 35. Around 19,300 MW of soar capacity has been tendered. States wi faciitate setting up of these power pants and sign PPAs/PSAs as may be required, addressing issues of uniatera termination, must run status and payment security mechanisms. 36. Fresh tendering of soar projects incuding PPAs, up to 20,000 MW wi be done by 30th June, State faciitates State faciitates. State faciitates. Work under progress. Noted Action is under process. N.A. Work under progress. - Not yet started. 37. States wi ensure speedy impementation of renewabe projects, by addressing issues of Land acquisition, PPAs and Grid Integration. Action taken Action is under process. Action is under process. Work under progress. Under process. 38. Renewabe Energy projects are must-run projects and, therefore, they are not to be backed down. In case of backing down charges wi have to be paid. Necessary reguations in this regard wi be formuated. No back down of generation from Renewabe Energy pants Must run status in State. Must run status in State. Action under progress. Under process. 58

61 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam 39. For promotion of Soar Rooftop Projects, SERCs of Jammu & Kashmir, Teangana, the North-eastern States, except Assam and Tripura sha notify reguations to aow net metering / feed-in-tariff by 31st March, Further, DISCOMs wi streamine their processes and deveop onine mechanisms by 30th June, 2017 to provide grid connection. Net metering reguations issued. Action taken. Action is under process. Under consideration. Under process. 40. Kisan Urja Sashaktikaran Mission (KUSUM), the proposed Mission, woud enabe optima use of wasteands and encourage hybridization and enabe earning of additiona income for farmers. Concerned DISCOMs sha be responsibe for providing connectivity of the farmer's soar PV power project to the nearest grid sub-station. - Discoms wi take a ca as and when required. Noted. Noted. No action taken. 41. States wi adhere to time schedues for achieving Project commissioning of over 25,000 MW of renewabe energy projects during the Financia Year. If need be, SPDs who compete & commission the projects ahead of schedued date wi not be penaized. Being impemented. N.A. Impemented. Noted The States sha discourage squatting on wind-potentia sites by ensuring strict adherence to the time ine fixed for instaation of projects. N.A. N.A. Action is under process. Noted N.A. 43. The States sha take stock of wind power projects aready commissioned and yet to be commissioned. The issue of signing PPAs wi be resoved in a time bound manner. Action under process. Action under process. Action is under process. Action is under process. N.A. 44. The States sha evove a mechanism for timey payment to soar and wind power Action taken. Action is under process. generators and wi ensure that in no case the deay is more than 2 months (paid with interest). Further, transparent norms wi be foowed for payment to a parties equitaby, with no discrimination between soar and wind generators. Action taken. Noted For smooth impementation of AJAY scheme for street ights' eectrification, eigibe States and DISCOMs sha provide fu assistance to EESL for instaation by 31st March, Action initiated. N.A. 100% eectrification. Under consideration. Under consideration. 59

62 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions 16 Bihar 17 Madhya Pradesh Actions taken 18 Gujarat 19 West Benga 20 Assam Simiary for providing soar amps to students, the States sha provide support to IIT-Bombay and SECI. 46. In off-grid schemes, the States sha foow transparent process for ensuring competitive pricing in a segments of renewabe energy. Such projects can be used for energizing the un-eectrified househods. Action taken through e- tendering. N.A. N.A. Work under progress. Action taken. 47. The State sha start forecasting and scheduing of wind power either by utiizing the services of NIWE or any other agency. Metering and communication infrastructure sha be instaed at a pooing stations for rea time generation of data. The States sha finaize and notify the mechanism for scheduing and forecasting for intra-state transmission of soar and wind power. Action taken. Action taken. Action taken. Noted Intra-state transmission & wheeing charges wi be evied on kwh basis to faciitate both intra and inter-state sae of renewabe power in the States. Action taken BERC. Wheeing charges from RE Source beneficiaries are being recovered in terms of KWh Action taken. Being foowed. Under process 49. Issues reating to (a) Uniatera termination (b) Must-run and (c) Payment security wi be addressed urgenty so that tariff of renewabe energy comes down further. BERC orders are being foowed. Action is under process. Action taken. Noted The States sha initiate capacity buiding of DISCOMs/SERC/SNA officers and entrepreneurs in renewabe energy. Further, each State may nominate maximum number of officia for training programme being conducted by MNRE. Under consideration. N.A. Action is under process. Noted States sha make rooftop soar instaation mandatory in a new buidings / constructions. Further, the process of approva for rooftop soar subsidy and approva of buiding pan approved by Municipa Corporation sha be integrated Work in progress. N.A. - Under process. Under consideration Continue... 60

63 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Action Taken Report on the resoutions adopted with reference Ministry of Mines at the Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States/UTs hed on th th 7 & 8 October, 2016 at Vadodara, Gujarat Resoutions Action Taken Report 52. Preparedness for e- auction of Major Minera Bocks- The State Governments to auction 61 proposed bocks in and aso reauction the annued bocks by March, Further, the States wi expedite the minera auction preparedness for and beyond. Ti now, 64 major minera bocks have been notified by 9 States for auction. The auctioning resuts as on , which are successfuy auctioned: v v v v v v v 1 imestone bock in Andhra Pradesh concuded on imestone bocks and 1 god bock in Chhattisgarh concuded on , and respectivey. 2 imestone bock and 1 god bock in Jharkhand concuded on and respectivey. 7 iron ore bocks in Karnataka concuded from to Diamond bock- First ever diamond bock auctioned in the country in the state of Madhya Pradesh concuded on imestone bocks in Rajasthan concuded on , and respectivey. 1 iron ore bock in Odisha concuded on and 1 imestone and 1 manganese bock each concuded The summary resuts of the 21 successfu mining bocks put to auction across the country show that minera with estimated vaue of resources over Rs. 93,190 crores have been disposed of in a transparent manner. The tota estimated revenue to the state government over the ease period stands at Rs 73,359 crores. Out of this the cumuative Royaty, DMF and NMET contributions works out to be Rs. 15,825 crores (Rs. 14,130 crores, Rs.1,413 crores and Rs.283 crores, respectivey). e-auction had to be annued due to insufficient number of appications of initia bids for 37 bocks for which the issues were identified as given beow: v v v v v the quantity and grade of ore, quaity of the mineraization studies, and ownership pattern, genera du market scenario any end use conditions imposed by the states in the bidding documents 61

64 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions v Action Taken Report The apprehensions raised on average sae price notified by IBM being particuary high in imestone has been countered by the successfu auction of imestone bock at extremey high percentage of sharing of the vaue of minera dispatched up to % in one of the bocks of Rajasthan. Auction Bocks in pipeine: & Setting up of District Mining Fund (DMF) - The DMF wi be set up in a districts by the States. Identifications and impementation of projects under DMF wi be done in ine with the PMKKKY (Prandhan In pipeine ( ) State Ongoing Additiona bocks Lapsed Tota ( ) committed by appications the States under section 10A(2) (not having court cases) * Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Gujarat 8-0 Jharkhand Karnataka Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Odisha Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Tota * - There are about 83 more apsed appications which may become avaiabe for auction in which the appicants have gone to the courts. The State Governments aso have been empowered to constitute DMF for Minor Mineras under the newy inserted section 15A in the MMDR Act. Ti Jan, 2017 of the 12 minera rich states a except TN, a have framed Rues and estabished DMFs. TN is yet to start coecting funds. So far, tota 287 districts in 11 minera rich states are covered under PMKKKY. Rs Crores has been coected as on The detais of DMF coections for major mineras, as reported by the States is 62

65 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions Mantri Khanij Kayan Yojna) Scheme. The DMF needs to be constituted for Minor Mineras aso by the State Government. The State Governments shoud reguary monitor coection of funds and impementation of schemes under DMF, to give the maximum benefit to oca peope. The State Governments to prepare the porta for PMKKKY on the ines of the porta deveoped by State Government of Odisha. S. No State Action Taken Report DMF Figures as on Whether rues for DMF notified For Major Mineras For Minor Mineras Tota Districts Tota Number of districts in which DMF has been set up 1 Goa Yes No N/A Karnataka Yes Yes Chhattisgarh Yes Yes Odisha Yes No N/A Madhya Pradesh Yes Yes N/A Jharkhand Yes No N/A Rajasthan Yes Yes Teangana Yes Yes N/A Andhra Pradesh Yes No Gujarat Yes Yes Maharashtra Yes Yes Taminadu No No Tota Date of setting up of DMF For Major Mineras For Minor Mineras Tota Amount Coected (figures are in Rs. crores) A nationa porta is aso being prepared for monitoring impementation of PMKKKY with the hep of NISG. The contract awarded, stakehoder consutation is being done to finaize the SRS 63

66 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. 54. Resoutions Exporation Poicy The mechanism/procedure to be foowed for reverse auctioning/aotment of exporation bocks under the New Minera Exporation Poicy wi be finaized by the Ministry of Mines. Action Taken Report Nationa Minera Exporation Poicy (NMEP) has been announced by the government in Juy, 2016 for - v v v v Attracting private agencies through revenue sharing mode. Generation and dissemination of baseine geo-scientific data by the govt. as pubic good. Aero-geophysica survey of the whoe country. Creation of a Nationa Geoscience Data Repository GSI has aready identified 100 bocks for exporation for impementing such schemes. SBICAP has been engaged as a transaction advisor to formuate the revenue sharing mechanism. The distribution of 100 bocks being panned is - v v v PSUs given 19 bocks GSI & MECL wi be taking 30 each out of the avaiabe budget and NMET fund 21 bocks may be given to private exporers under incentive scheme To attract private sector participation in regiona minera exporation, NMEP has provided for revenue sharing based incentive scheme. The Ministry has approved a framework for engaging private exporation entities through an incentive scheme based on the vaue of the minera resources discovered. NMET has initiated the process of empaneing Exporers under this scheme. A Nationa Aero-Geophysica Mapping Programme (NAGMP) is being undertaken by GSI of Rs.351 crore for the OGP area which is being funded through NMET. NAGMP for acquiring critica magnetic and radiometric data of the country for targeting conceaed minera deposits has been initiated. The survey is schedued to be fagged off on The acquired data is expected to attract minera exporers. 55. Star Rating- The system No States have impemented the system of Star Rating for minor mineras of Star Rating aso to be In CCEC on , the States were asked to impement Star Rating System adopted by the State for 'minor mineras' by the State Governments with the support of State Remote Governments for minor Sensing Centres and the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) need to be expeditiousy mineras. impemented. 64

67 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. 56. Resoutions Curbing Iega Mining through Mining Surveiance System (MSS) - The States are required to get the fied verification done of the trigger generated by the MSS within the specified time period of 7 days, though the district eve officers. The district wise noda officers to whom the triggers shoud be sent may be registered with the MSS. The State governments wi support the Government of India initiative of deveopment of Mining Surveiance System (MSS) for major mineras. The State Governments to take up the project of Sateite Mapping and Digitization for Minor Mineras by January, Action Taken Report In the initia phase, a tota of 296 triggers across the country covering a tota area of hectares, have been generated in the MSS in October, The status of fied verication of these triggers by the district/regiona mining officias of the State Government is as under - v v v v v Tota triggers reports submitted 198 Number of confirmed unauthorized mine cases detected 35 Number of mining activities of minor minera 50 Number of excavation / Dumps of other mining activities 100 No of other than mining activities cases - 13 The initia resuts of the MSS have been encouraging. Tota 296 triggers were generated initiay, which have successfuy detected the mining activity in more than 90 % cases and after the fied inspections, unauthorized mining was found in 18% of these. Inspired by its success, the States are coming forward to impement this system for minor mineras. STATE WISE TRIGGERS WITH INSPECTION STATUS State Tota Trigger Tota Inspection (%) Competion ANDHRA PRADESH % CHHATTISGARH % GOA 42 GUJARAT % HIMACHAL PRADESH 11 JHARKHAND 1 KARNATAKA % MADHYA PRADESH % MAHARASHTRA % MEGHALAYA 8 ODISHA % RAJASTHAN % TAMIL NADU % TELANGANA % No. of Unauthorized Mining Cases

68 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions Action Taken Report Trigger No State District Viage Inspection Resuts APR01 ANDHRA PRADESH Kurnoo GORANTLA Unauthorized Mining Case APR03 ANDHRA PRADESH Srikakuam nu Unauthorized Mining Case APR04 ANDHRA PRADESH Srikakuam TONANGI Unauthorized Mining Case APR07 ANDHRA PRADESH Prakasam Mirzapeta Unauthorized Mining Case CHG03 CHHATTISGARH Raipur KATHIYA Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ01 GUJARAT Jamnagar RAN Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ03 GUJARAT Porbandar ADITYANA (CT) Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ04 GUJARAT Jamnagar RAN Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ06 GUJARAT Jamnagar PACHHATAR Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ07 GUJARAT Jamnagar MEVASA Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ09 GUJARAT Jamnagar VIRPUR Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ10 GUJARAT Jamnagar BHOGAT Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ11 GUJARAT Jamnagar PATAN Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ13 GUJARAT Porbandar RANAVAV (M) Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ18 GUJARAT Junagadh ANKOLALI Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ22 GUJARAT Porbandar BOKHIRA Unauthorized Mining Case GUJ24 GUJARAT Junagadh ANKOLALI Unauthorized Mining Case KARB01 KARNATAKA Raichur MADRAINAKOTA Unauthorized Mining Case MPR04 MADHYA PRADESH Neemuch SUBAKHERA Unauthorized Mining Case MPR23 MADHYA PRADESH Katni CHHAIGARA Unauthorized Mining Case MPR29 MADHYA PRADESH Satna DEVMAUDALDAL Unauthorized Mining Case MPR35 MADHYA PRADESH Katni KHIRWA Unauthorized Mining Case MPR44 MADHYA PRADESH Baaghat RAWAIBANDI Unauthorized Mining Case MSH05 MAHARASHTRA Nagpur BHANDARBODI Unauthorized Mining Case RAJA04 RAJASTHAN Nagaur MADPURA Unauthorized Mining Case TMN12 TAMIL NADU Saem CHETTICHCHAVADI Unauthorized Mining Case TMN13 TAMIL NADU Saem CHETTICHCHAVADI Unauthorized Mining Case TMN17 TAMIL NADU Saem KONDAMANAYAKKANPATTI Unauthorized Mining Case TMN22 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei VIJAYAPATI (KIZUR) Unauthorized Mining Case TMN23 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei VIJAYAPATI (KIZUR) Unauthorized Mining Case TMN24 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei ABHISHEKAPATTI Unauthorized Mining Case TMN25 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei RAMAYANPATTI Unauthorized Mining Case TMN26 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei TENKULAM Unauthorized Mining Case TMN27 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei NARANAMMALPURAM Unauthorized Mining Case TMN29 TAMIL NADU Tirunevei MARADAI Unauthorized Mining Case Potting and Vaidation of Major Minera Leases 66

69 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions Action Taken Report Tota eases in the Region No. of eases vaidated State No. of Working No. of Tota eases No. of No. of Tota eases Mines Non-Working Working Mines Non-Working Mines Mines vaidated Rajasthan Karnataka Keraa Odisha Taminadu Himacha Pradesh Uttrakhand Haryana Jammu & Kashmir GOA Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh Teengana Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Jharkhand Meghaaya Assam Sikkim Manipur West Benga Chattisgarh Bihar Gujarat State wise MSS Issues : MAJOR MINERALS Genera 1. The State wise status of MSS trigger report submission is given in Annexure The State wise break up of MSS Trigger where Unauthorized Mining is confirmed by the States is given in Annexure-2 3. The state Wise Status of Lease potted is given in the attached exce Sheet. Himacha Pradesh 1. Tota 11 Triggers were sent and so far none of the Triggers Fied Verification report has been submitted. Fied verification of these 11 triggers is to be submitted at the eariest. 2. Noda Officer for MSS has not been nominated Non Working Mines- Khasra Pan with prominent permanent features is required to be provided as IBM do not have pan in respect of these mines. Odisha 1. Tota 20 Triggers were sent and so far Fied Verification reports of ony 10 have been submitted. Fied verification of these remaining 10 triggers is to be submitted at the 67

70 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions eariest. Action Taken Report 2. Noda Officer for MSS has not been nominated Non Working Mines- Khasra Pan with prominent permanent features is required to be provided as IBM do not have pan in respect of these mines. Goa 1. Tota 42 Triggers were sent and so far none of the Triggers Fied Verification report has been submitted. Fied verification of these 42 triggers is to be submitted at the eariest. 2. Noda Officer for MSS has not been nominated Non Working Mines- Khasra Pan with prominent permanent features is required to be provided as IBM do not have pan in respect of these mines. Meghaaya 1. Tota 8 Triggers were sent and so far none of the Triggers Fied Verification report has been submitted. Fied verification of these 8 triggers is to be submitted at the eariest. 2. Noda Officer for MSS has not been nominated Non Working Mines- Khasra Pan with prominent permanent features is required to be provided as IBM do not have pan in respect of these mines. Rajasthan 1. Tota 23 Triggers were sent and so far Fied Verification reports of ony 13 have been submitted. Fied verification of these remaing10 triggers is to be submitted at the eariest. 2. Noda Officer for MSS has not been nominated. Jammu & Kashmir 1. The data in respect of 34 major mineras mines is to be provided and officers to be deputed to BISAG to get them potted and do the vaidation of the potted eases. Gujarat 1. Two compaints of unauthorized mining from Citizen were received and same forwarded to the State for the fied verification of the same. The fied verification report is yet to be received. Andhra Pradesh 1. Tota 29 Triggers were sent and so far Fied Verification reports of ony 20 have been submitted. Fied verification of these remaining 09 triggers is to be submitted at the eariest MINOR MINERALS None of the States have sent have sent their officer for getting their ease potted in MSS. A the State may be requested to send their officers aong with Khasra pan showing the permanent features and ease demarcation done on it. For the State of Haryana, 26 ease maps were coected and same were potted in MSS, However no officer has come to vaidate them. 68

71 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. 57. Resoutions Minor minera rues - Transparent systems for grant of minera concessions for minor mineras wi be adopted by the States, so that the directives issued by the Ministry, under 20A, shoud be in pace by December, Action Taken Report Pursuant to the Supreme Court judgment dated 27/02/2012 in Deepak Kumar's Case (OA No of 2011 in Specia Leave Petition (C) No of 2009), a cearance under the Environment Protection Act, 1986, was made mandatory in respect of a minor mineras irrespective of the area of the mining ease. The Ministry of Mines has prepared draft guideines for mining of minor mineras which was circuated to the state governments. The action had to be taken by the States in response to the directive issued by the Ministry under 20A to impement transparent systems for giving minor minera concessions, especiay in the ight of Minister of Mines DO etter no 16/119/2015-M.VI/220 dt to the Chief Minister of the States. 58. Processing of saved Mining Lease Appications before 11th January, The State Governments wi expedite the decisions on cases pending for action or decisions, on their part, in respect to the mining ease appications which were saved by Section 10A (2) (c) of the MMDR Act, subject to fufiment of the conditions of the previous approva or of the etter of intent, with the time ine up to 11th January, Efforts made by the Ministry of Mines for expediting the cases of mining ease appications saved under section 10A(2) of the MMDR Act inserted amendment with effect from 12th Jan, 2015 The Mining Lease (ML) appications which have been saved under Section 10A(2) of the Mines & Mineras (Deveopment & Reguation) (MMDR) Act 2015, if not granted before , woud suo motu apse. The Ministry of Mines had made serious efforts to expedite a such cases where the mining pan was sanctioned but cases were pending because of procedura deays in getting statutory cearances ike forest cearances, environment cearances etc. Their expeditious processing was important as these mining eases, which are under process of acquiring cearances, if granted, woud contribute in enhancing the minera production in the immediate future for acceerating the deveopment process in the country and increasing the nationa weath. These efforts to faciitate the stakehoders in getting cearances and approvas, highight the initiatives taken for good, citizen centric and responsibe governance. The Ministry of Mines in its endeavour to expedite such cases of Mining Leases, has organised severa rounds of discussions with the State Governments, concerned Centra Government ministries & departments and aso with the project proponents. The Ministry of Mines has coordinated with the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Cimate Change (MoEF&CC), Ministry of Triba Affairs (MoTA), Ministry of Law & Justice (MoL&J), Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) and other concerned departments, to faciitate the State Governments to be abe to grant the ease expeditiousy in such cases pending because of EC, FC and settement of forest rights. Outcome At the time of amendment of MMDR Act in 2015, tota 333 such cases were saved. During the intervening period of 2 years, neary mining eases of 102 cases have been granted, which means 231 cases have stand apsed on 12th Jan.,

72 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions Action Taken Report States Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Tota Tota number of cases in the State as on , which were saved under Section 10A(2)(c) No action by Project Proponent (PP) (List 1) Tota No. of Cases where MP was not avaiabe A. Status as on Decision of State Govt. (Mining Department, District Adm., etc.) (List 2) Cases where EC was require d for grant of ease Cases where FC was require d for grant of ease Tota Cases where EC was avaiabe Cases where EC was under process Tota Cases where FC was avaiabe Cases where FC was under process B. Status as on Cases where ease was executed and registered Cases where ease was executed but not registered cases where grant order where issued under rue 8(2) of M(OTAHEM) CR, 2016 cases where a conditions of LoI/ Prior Approva were fufied by the Project Proponent

73 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions Action Taken Report States Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Tota Cases where PP has sti not initiated any action for getting cearances Tota number of eft over cases pending for processing or under process with the State Government Tota number of eft over cases u/s 10A(2)(c) in the States * Cases where EC was obtain ed Cases where EC was obtained from to No. of cases where Difficuty Order for EC was utiised Cases where FC was require d for grant of ease Cases where FC was obtained from to u/s 2(ii) of FCA Cases where FC was obtained from to u/s 2(iii) of FCA (ony 8 execu ted) 17 Cases in which FRA reaxation was utiised for execution of ease where FC was under section 2(iii) A case havi ng prior FRA 2 (Out of execu ted ease s ) 2 71

74 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S. No. Resoutions Action Taken Report States Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Tota Court Cases Cases which coud not be executd due to pending FC Tota no. of appicants saved u/s 10A(2)(c), fied court cases Tota No. of appicants fie court case against the timeine of 2 years No. of appicants fied court against the provision of Rue 8 of M(OTAHEM) CR, Cases in which coud not be executed Cases in which even the grant order was not made

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79 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs X 7 POWER FOR ALL 1.1 STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLAN FOR 100% HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION AND SMART METERING Background 1. Section 6 of The Eectricity Act 2003 stipuates that "The concerned State Government and the Centra Government sha jointy endeavour to provide access to eectricity to a areas incuding viages and hamets through rura eectricity infrastructure and eectrification of househods". Nationa Eectricity Poicy aso states that "Government recognizes the need for providing necessary capita subsidy and soft ong-term debt finances for investment in rura eectrification as this woud reduce the cost of suppy in rura areas. Adequate funds woud need to be made avaiabe for the same through the Pan process". Government of India, through its poicies and programmes, is committed to provide access to eectricity to a and aso to ensure quaity & reiabe power suppy at reasonabe price. Government of India aunched 'DeenDayaUpadhaya Gram JyotiYojana' (DDUGJY) for rura areas with the objectives of (i) Viage Eectrification; (ii) Providing access to househods; (iii) Feeder Separation; (iv) Strengthening of subtransmission and distribution network and (v) Metering. The ongoing rura eectrification projects of erstwhie scheme have been subsumed in this new scheme as Rura Eectrification (RE) Component. The scheme has a tota outay of Rs. 75,893 crore with a budgetary support of Rs. 63,027 crore from Government of India incuding RE component. Projects with approved outay have been aready sanctioned to the States and are in various stages of impementation by the State DISCOMs / Power Deptt.. Government of India have aso taken up a joint initiative with a States/UTs for preparation of State specific action pan for providing 24x7 power suppy to a househods/homes, industria & commercia consumers and adequate suppy of power to Agricutura consumers as per State poicy. This initiative aims at ensuring uninterrupted suppy of quaity power to existing consumers and providing access to eectricity to a unconnected consumers by 2019 in a phased manner. A States/UTs have aready concuded this exercise. MOVING TOWARDS UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY - STEPS TAKEN UP SO FAR As a first step, eectrification of a remaining un-eectrified viages has been taken in mission mode under DDUGJY. Consequent upon ca of Hon'be Prime Minister on 15th August 2015 to eectrify a remaining about 18,500 un-eectrified viages in the country within 1000 days, the Ministry of Power and REC in association with a the stakehoders; formuated the roadmap to achieve this target and severa new initiatives were taken up. The new initiatives mainy incude (i) Onine monitoring of progress of RE (ii) 77

80 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Miestone based progress monitoring (ii) Depoyment of Gram VidyutAbhiyantas (GVAs) by REC (iii) Reguar fieds visits to capture progress aong with photographs (iv) Coordination amongst stakehoders. The new initiatives taken up for deveoping innovative monitoring mechanism for monitoring of eectrification of un-eectrified viages spread across various parts of the country has yieded promising resuts in the recent past. The proactive approach, incredibe efforts and adaptabiity to innovative monitoring mechanism demonstrated by a the stakehoders has infused new momentum in impementation of DDUGJY. As on , ony 4492 viages are remaining to be eectrified. Cooperation of States is soicited in this endeavor. The next step in this direction is to ensure avaiabiity of adequate eectricity infrastructure in a the habitations associated with the viages to provide access to eectricity to a househods. REC had taken up a massive exercise with a States to assess habitations-wise base ine data on househod eectrification which has since been finaized. The detais of new projects sanctioned under DDUGJY which are under process of tendering and award of contracts by the States for execution of works and aso RE component projects which are aready under impementation in various stages, are aso avaiabe onine. In ine with miestone based monitoring of un-eectrified viages, the entire process of eectrification of habitations to provide access to househods has aso been divide into foowing 8 miestones : M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 Sanction Award Survey competed Materia receipt at site Work ongoing Work competed Creation of DT capacity for 100% househods Eectrification of 100% househods A Citizen Engagement Window 'SAMVAD' has aso been created in the GARV APP to enhance participation of pubic at arge. The peope of the country can contribute in the programme by providing their feedback and suggestions which sha be automaticay forwarded to the concerned Superintending Engineer(s) of DISCOMs on their Dashboard. A States, in the Power Ministers conference hed in Goa in June 2016, have agreed to the foowing timeines to provide access to a househods in the respective States. State-wise detais of target and present status are as under: 78

81 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. S.No. State Target Present Status of HH Eectrification 1. West Benga, Haryana, March 2017 West Benga (99%), Haryana (79%), Keraa, Goa, Himacha Pradesh, Keraa (99%), Goa (100%), Tami Nadu and UTs Himacha (99%), Tami Nadu (100%) 2. Maharashtra, Teangana March 2017 (Except Maharashtra (80%), Teengana (82%), and Chhattisgarh LWE Areas)March Chhattisgarh (86^%) 2018 (LWE Areas) 3. Jammu & Kashmir 15th August 2017 J&K (79%) 4. Sikkim March 2018 Sikkim (85%) 5. Assam, Odisha, Rajasthan, March 2018 Assam (53%), Odisha (55%), Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan (75%), MP (60%) 6. Bihar 20 akh Househods by Bihar (45%) March 2017 and a remaining househods by December Uttar Pradesh 90 Lakh Househods by UP (48%) March 2018 and baance by March Uttarakhand December 2017 Uttarakhand (87%) 9. Other remaining States December 2017 AP, Gujarat, Punjab (100%) Arunacha Pr (74%), Manipur (75%), Meghaaya (70%), Mizoram(94%), Nagaand(45%), Tripura (72%) Present status of access to eectricity to rura househod Out of tota about Lakh rura househods, akh househods are eectrified and remaining un-eectrified househods works out to be about Lakh. State-wise detais are encosed at Annexure-I. 79

82 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. There are few States, Gujarat; Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Taminadu and Goa which have achieved 100% househod eectrification and States of Keraa, West Benga, Himacha Pradesh and Mizoram have achieved househod eectrification eve of more than 90%. At the same time States of Bihar, UP, Jharkhand and Nagaand are beow 50% eve as far as househod eectrification is concerned. Out of tota remaining un-eectrified househods (about 460 akh), more than 90% of these un-eectrified househods are covered in 9 States namey Bihar (67.15 Lakh, 15%), UP( Lakh, 34%), Maharashtra (28.15 Lakh, 6%), Madhya Pradesh (45.90 akh, 10%), Odisha (36.41 Lakh, 8%), Jharkhand (34.28 Lakh, 7%), Assam (22.51 Lakh, 5%), Rajasthan (22.33 Lakh, 5%) and Karnataka (12.13 Lakh, 3%). The remaining un-eectrified househods are spread across the country in more than 5 Lakh viages. Providing access to househods under DDUGJY Providing access to eectricity to househods invoves two major steps (i) Creation of adequate eectricity infrastructure to faciitate connectivity and (ii) Providing ast mie connectivity / service connections to prospective consumers/househods. Once access is provided to the househods, suppy of adequate power with desired quaity & reiabiity and ensuring timey biing and coection of revenue by the State DISCOMs / Power Deptt. is equay important for sustainabe operations and maintenance. To ensure adequacy of infrastructure in aready eectrified viages, intensive eectrification of such viages has aso been taken up under DDUGJY. Out of tota 7,63,251 viages sanctioned for intensive eectrification under DDUGJY, Intensive eectrification in 4,14,563 viages has been competed as on State-wise detais on intensive eectrification of viages are encosed at Annexure-II. An amount of Rs Crore is avaiabe under sanctioned projects of RE Component under DDUGJY. New projects covering strengthening & augmentation of existing infrastructure incuding providing access to househod, feeder separation, metering etc. with tota cost of Rs. 42,553 crore have been sanctioned to 32 States/UTs. The States are in the process of tendering and award of contracts for execution of rura eectrification works covered under these projects. We beieve that the issue of adequacy of infrastructure is 80

83 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. being effectivey addressed under DDUGJY. State-wise status of detais of avaiabiity of funds under DDUGJY projects for various components of rura eectrification works are encosed at Annexure-III. Providing ast mie connectivity to the househods i.e. reease of service connections to househods is the responsibiity of concerned State DISCOM / Power Deptt. Under DDUGJY, GOI is providing free eectricity connections to BPL househods. Out of tota Lakh free BPL connections sanctioned under DDUGJY, free eectricity connections to Lakh BPL househods have been provided as on The State-wise detais are encosed at Annexure-IV. The APL househods are expected to obtain eectricity connections from the concerned State DISCOM / Power Deptt. by paying appicabe connection charges as per their norms. States have started updating progress on GARV App. Out of 652 districts of 30 States, ata has been vaidated by 22 States in respect of 419 districts. Progress on househod eectrification has been updated by 16 States in 230 districts. State-wise detais are encosed at Annexure-V. Chaenges The remaining un-eectrified househods are spread across the country in more than 5 Lakh viages and reaching a these viages, creating infrastructure and reeasing connections to househods in a time bound manner is a mammoth task. Competion of this task woud require unprecedented efforts by a the stakehoder; particuary the State DISCOMs/Power Deptt.. Timey competion of works under the sanctioned projects by the State DISCOMs / Power Deptt. is a chaenge keeping in view the past performance of impementing agencies. Under DDUGJY, GOI is providing free eectricity connections to BPL househods but if the fied reports are beieved many BPL househods are not wiing to take connections because of the fear of high amount bis ikey to be received by them and its payment. Quaity, reiabiity, quantity and timings of power suppy are aso cited as reasons for not showing interest in taking eectricity connections. Another reason, which has been mainy noticed recenty in case of Uttar Pradesh, is of 'Katia Connections' and rampant direct theft of eectricity. CEEW (COUNCIL ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND WATER ) has carried out a study in six States namey Bihar; Jharkhand; Madhya Pr.; Odisha; UP and West Benga to capture the state of access to eectricity to househods and aso to categorize the reasons for deprivation and identify the bottenecks in ensuring eectricity access to househods. Major finding and insights of the study are as under : (i) (ii) Whie the most often reported reason for a househod remaining un-eectrified is the unavaiabiity of grid infrastructure required for a connection, other issues such as unreiabiity of the suppy or unaffordabiity of the initia cost/ monthy expenditure aso pose a chaenge for a significant proportion of househods. Affordabiity emerges as an issue for most of the states, both for upfront connection cost and recurring monthy expenditures. There is need for the reevant stakehoders to understand the impact of the cost of connection as we as the awareness about this cost. Incorrect information about the cost of connection can often ead househods to beieve these costs to be prohibitive and choosing to remain un-eectrified. 81

84 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. (iii) (iv) (v) In the case of recurring costs, one common issue across states is the difference in rates charged to metered and unmetered househods. The higher fixed cost for unmetered househods, with the (impicit) assumption that househods consume more than 1 unit per day, is an important reason why many unmetered househods are cassified in the unaffordabe tier for the affordabiity dimension. In the interest of consumer wefare and with the ong term need to charge a consumers for the appropriate eve of consumption, there is an urgent need to convey the benefits of metering and expand this universay. Key chaenges faced by househods in different states are detaied beow: Bihar Jharkhand Madhya Pradesh Odisha Uttar Pradesh West Benga Avaiabiity of Avaiabiity of Avaiabiity of Affordabiity Affordabiity Affordabiity infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure and reiabiity affordabiity reiabiity and Affordabiity and reiabiity affordabiity and affordabiity States wi have to mitigate the above chaenges effectivey to ensure access to a househods; particuary the quaity and reiabiity of power suppy, rationaization of cost of connections and awareness amongst rura popuace Suggested measures to faciitate reease of connections to househods States / DISCOMs to create awareness amongst pubic at arge on uses of eectricity, cost of accessing, cost of uses vis-à-vis cost being incurred on conventiona means as a repacement of eectricity incuding both direct & indirect costs, biing process, bi payments, immediate benefits of uses both tangibe and intangibe (quaity of ife, heath, education, security etc.), future prospects in income generation; empoyment etc. by reaching them from door to door with correct information and motivate them to obtain eectricity connections. States / DISCOMs to take up extensive drive to curb theft of eectricity and reguarizing iega connections to bring them on edgers of DISCOMs. DISCOM staff aso need to be monitored in this regard. States / DISCOMs to focus on quaity, reiabiity, quantity & timings of power suppy in rura areas. This is essentia to create wiingness amongst prospective consumers to obtain eectricity connection. Rationaizing cost of connection, particuary for rura househods. Further, the appicabe charges for obtaining eectricity connections from a DISCOM are required to be paid upfront by the prospective consumers. Some States such as West Benga, Bihar have introduced schemes wherein no upfront fee/cost towards obtaining a new connection is charged by the DISCOM from the househods, however the appicabe connection charges are recovered from the consumers in instaments through eectricity bis to 82

85 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. be paid by the consumers over a period. Such arrangement may motivate the economicay weaker househods to avai eectricity connections. The DISCOMs may aso consider avaiing oans from REC and PFC to meet upfront expenditure of providing eectricity connections to househods which in any case sha be recovered from the consumers in instaments. Rationaizing of tariffs in ine with tariff poicy % metering at a eves (consumers/dts/feeders) to faciitate energy audit and extensive use of technoogy to improve efficiency and faciitate near rea time monitoring and interventions to reduce AT&C osses Smart Metering Metering is a key part of the eectricity network and represents the boundary between Utiity and consumer domain. Eectric utiities use meters instaed at consumer premises to measure energy deivered to their customers for biing purposes. Eectricity meters operate by continuousy measuring the instantaneous votage (vots) and current (amperes) to give energy used (in kiowatt-hours etc.). The Metering technoogy have evoved in different phases viz. Eectromechanica meters, Digita / Eectronic Meters, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Smart Meters etc. Smart Meters are advanced eectronic measurement and contro devices with two-way communication between the meter and the centra system. The communication and contro is its primary distinction w.r.t. a norma Eectronic Meter, which ony measures and records. Smart Meter usuay invove rea-time or near reatime sensors, power outage notification, and power quaity monitoring which is usefu for baancing eectric oads and reducing power outages (backouts).its important features are: Bi-directiona metering Detection and communication of abnorma/ tamper events Faciitate prepaid & postpaid metering. Time based Metering (ToU/ToD) Remotey configurabe incuding firmware upgrade Load Reconnect / Disconnect switch etc. Support remote oad management by sending oad curtaiment signas thru direct dispay/sms/web appication etc. Smart Meter is an integra part of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). The AMI incude hardware, software, communications, consumer energy dispays and controers, customer associated systems, Meter Data Management (MDM) software, and suppier business systems. Utiity can impement a variety of oad management and energy saving programs using smart meters, and thereby reduce the cost of providing eectricity. 83

86 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. The major benefits due to AMI /Smart Metering are as foows: Ø Benefits to Consumers Aow consumer to optimize their energy usage and costs by faciitating DSM / DR and ToU/Rea time pricing. Faciitate usage of Roof top PV. Faciitate accurate biing by eiminating need for estimated biing. It wi faciitate prepayment. Reiabiity and Quaity of suppy wi improve as the issues ike outages; ow votage etc sha be reported back by smart meters. It wi faciitate use of Home Area Network for managing energy usage and enabe remote energy usage optimisation. Ø Benefits to Utiities Faciitation of DSM/DR for better Load Management. Assist in Proiferation of Roof Top PV by faciitating net metering and hep in meeting RPO's. Anaytics on consumption pattern and improved revenue reaisation. Increase in biing frequency resuting in improved cash fows. Option for disconnecting/reconnecting consumers remotey. Reduction in O&M costs with better and targeted depoyment of Maintenance crew in conjunction with other systems ike OMS/CRM. Smart Meter Specifications & Standards 1. The enabing provision for Smart Metering has been given under the revised Nationa Tariff Poicy. Further, UDAY agreements with 27 States/VTs aso commit instaation of Smart Meters. 2. After mutipe comments, revisions and deiberations amongst various stakehoders ike Utiity, Industry, Experts etc., BIS has reeased the Smart Meter Standards for A.C. Static Direct Connected Watthour Smart Meter Cass 1 and 2 - Specification (IS-16444) in September In June 2013, CEA reeased specifications for singe phase smart meters which specified the functiona requirements and technica specs of singe phase smart meters. 84

87 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 4. As per atest update reeased by BIS on 19th Apri 2017 the amendments to IS16444 (i.e Part 1 &2) and reevant companion communication standards (IS Part 1, 2 & 3) have aso been pubished. The Ro-out strategy issued by CEA envisages area/feeder-wise instaation of Smart Meters. Current Scenario in India The smart meter are being depoyed either in piot projects or in few DISCOMs ony. State utiities have impemented AMR under R-APDRP program to bring down osses and to improve the operationa and biing efficiency. To further strengthen such efforts and reaise maximum benefits Ministry of Power has aunched Nationa Smart Grid Mission (NSGM), Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme (IPDS) and Ujwa DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY) with specia focus on Smart Metering in Aso, mandatory depoyment of smart meters was incuded in Nationa Tariff Poicy Approximatey ~2,00,000 Smart meters are under depoyment in 11 Smart Grid piot projects and 1 Smart City piot project sanctioned by MoP, Govt of India. More than 8,00,000 Smart Meters are aso sanctioned for depoyment as integra part of four sanctioned Smart Grid projects under NSGM. Apart from these neary one miion smart meters are being considered for depoyment by various DISCOMs/private utiities and tenders /EoI are in process/ envisaged. Way forward: Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø CEA had reeased functiona requirements of AMI in August 2016 which incudes the specifications of singe phase, three phase smart meters aong with supporting infrastructure and compete ecosystem. Ministry of Power aso issued guideines for phase wise roout of smart meters as prescribed in the Nationa Tariff Poicy 2016 as per the specifications reeased by CEA. Testing abs ike CPRI, ERTL, YMPL etc. are equipped with suitabe infrastructure for carrying our testing and certification of smart meters as per the appicabe standards. CEA, EESL, PFC, REC and NSGM has been mandated to expedite roout of smart meters. The Ministry of Power through NSGM woud handhod states in formuating pans/business modes/ease modes for roout. The key to success of Smart Meter roout is no immediate financia burden to either the DISCOMs and consumers and thus Business modes/shared revenue modes may be adopted instead of direct CAPEX spending. 85

88 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure-I State-wise status of rura househod eectrification S. State Tota HHs Tota eectri ed % HH eectri ed Baance to Baance UE HHs be eectri ed HH as % of Tota UE Hhs 1 Andhra Pradesh % 0 0% 2 Arunacha Pradesh % % 3 Assam % % 4 Bihar % % 5 Chhattisgarh % % 6 Goa % 0 0% 7 Gujarat % 0 0% 8 Haryana % % 9 Himacha Pradesh % % 10 Jammu & Kashmir % % 11 Jharkhand % % 12 Karnataka % % 13 Keraa % % 14 Madhya Pradesh % % 15 Maharashtra % % 16 Manipur % % 17 Meghaaya % % 18 Mizoram % % 19 Nagaand % % 20 Odisha % % 21 PUDUCHERRY % 375 0% 22 Punjab % 0 0% 23 Rajasthan % % 24 Sikkim % % 25 Tami Nadu % 423 0% 26 Teangana % % 27 Tripura % % 28 Uttar Pradesh % % 29 Uttarakhand % % 30 West Benga % % Tota % % 86

89 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure-II Statewise detais of Intensive Eectrification of Viages S. State Intensive Eectri cation Intensive Eectri cation Intensive Eectri cation of Viages-Sanctioned of Viages-Achieved of Viages - Baance Andhra Pradesh Arunacha Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Gujarat Haryana Himacha Pradesh J&K Jharkhand Karnataka Keraa Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghaaya Mizoram Nagaand Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Taminadu Teangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttrakhand West Benga Dadra & Nagar Havei Puducherry Tota

90 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure-III State wise detais of avaiabiity of Funds under DDUGJY S. State RE Component Sanctioned Project Tota avaiabiity Cost of new of Funds (RE Sanctioned Funds aready Baance Projects Component + Project Cost utiised avaiabe funds New Projects) Andhra Pradesh Arunacha Pr Assam Bihar Chattisgarh Gujarat Haryana Himacha Pradesh J&K Jharkhand Karnataka Keraa Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghaaya Mizoram Nagaand Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Taminadu Teangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttrakhand West Benga Goa Andaman & Nicobar Isands 31 Dadra & Nagar Havei Puducherry Tota

91 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure-IV State wise detais of BPL Househod Connections S. State BPL Househods BPL Househods Baance BPL Sanctioned Eectri ed Househods Andhra Pradesh Arunacha Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Gujarat Haryana Himacha Pradesh J&K Jharkhand Karnataka Keraa Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghaaya Mizoram Nagaand Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Taminadu Teangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttrakhand West Benga Tota

92 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure-V State-wise status of updation of progress on GARV App Sr. No. State No. of No. of No. of No of No of Disricts HHs reported Districts Viages Habitations Districts data in which HH Eectri ed from is Vaidated progress is updated 1 Andhra Pradesh Arunacha Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himacha Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Keraa Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghaaya Mizoram Nagaand Odisha PUDUCHERRY Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tami Nadu Teangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Benga Tota

93 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 1.2 IT Enabement in Distribution Sector and onine feeder monitoring IT enabement in Urban areas IT enabement was taken up in 1405 towns under R-APDRP. So far, 20 Data Centers, 19 Disaster Recovery Centers, 40 Customer Care Centers have been estabished and 1346 towns have been made IT enabed across India. With the objective of IT enabement across entire urban area in the country, funding for IT enabement has been approved in the baance additiona towns under IPDS. IT enabement in these towns wi ead to improvement in Consumer satisfaction and power suppy reiabiity, monitoring of a 11 KV Feeders through Nationa Power porta (NPP) and proper Energy Accounting and Auditing, which wi utimatey hep in taking measures for reduction of AT&C osses and improvement in financia viabiity of the DISCOMs. DPRs for six States covering 350 towns have aready been approved; DPRs for 1400 towns in 11 States are under appraisa in PFC. Detais guideines and Advisory have been issued to States by PFC.Focus is required on eary DPR submission (J&K, Rajasthan, NE States), award and Impementation. Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring System under IPDS Urban Distribution Feeder Monitoring system (UDFMS) has been deveoped as an integra part of Nationa Power Porta (NPP) to get Feeder Wise Loss Figures. Foowing MIS is covered in Urban Distribution System: AT&C Loss Reduction from Base ine Town-wise Monitoring Feeder-wise Biing and Coection efficiency, AT&C Loss Feeder Severity Index (FSI) -Indicates comparative impact of the Feeder in the Tota Towns Loss (Higher the FSI higher the impact on the Town's Loss) Consumers Compaint Redressa/New Connection Report Power Reiabiity Indices (SAIFI, SAIDI) Monthy reports are aso being sent to State Discom MD's on the same. Appropriate Administrative and Technica measures can be taken up feeder-wise by the utiities to reduce AT& C osses. Focus is required on upkeep on Meter/Modems/communication inks, monthy submission of data by a States, appointing Feeder Managers, taking appropriate Administrative and Technica measures for reduction of osses. 91

94 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Rura Feeder Monitoring 11 kv Rura Feeder Monitoring Scheme (Being impemented by REC Transmission Projects Company Limited (a whoy owned subsidiary of Rura Eectrification Corporation Limited) Ministry of Power has aunched 11 kv Rura Feeder Monitoring scheme to capture rea time suppy parameters of rura India (rura/ agricutura feeder) to monitor the avaiabiity/quaity of power suppy in rura areas of the country. This scheme sha faciitate the State Government/ its Discoms to carry out proper network anaysis and panning of power infrastructure to utimatey reduce the osses and improve the quaity of power. Scheme is competey funded by MoP incuding O&M charges for 5 years. As per present status, the work in 4 States of Gujarat, Teangana, Chhattisgarh &Uttrakhand has aready commenced and expected to be competed by Juy, The work for another 9 states is expected to be awarded by end of Apri, The entire scheme covering Teangana, Chhattisgarh, Uttrakhand, Gujarat, Andaman & Nicobar Isands, Keraa, Tami, Haryana, Chandigarh, Himacha Pradesh Nadu, Pondicherry, Odisha, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Mizoram, West Benga, Nagaand, Arunacha Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Meghaaya, Andhra Pradesh and Assam states is schedued to be competed by December, Faciitation required from Discom for Rura feeder monitoring: Appointment of Noda Officer for proper coordination and faciitation Confirmation of exact no of Quantity Modems with ocation detais Change of od/ egacy/ Non DLMS meters or to provide protoco and/ or API's of these feeder meters. States of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand & Manipur are impementing their own systems. They are requested to compete the same within next 6 months and simutaneousy faciitate inkage of feeder data to Nationa Power Porta. Rura Feeder data on power suppy for state of Gujarat, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh & Chhattisgarh has aready been inked to NPP. However, AT&C oss data of one state i.e. Gujarat is inked to the porta. Baance states i.e. Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh & Chhattisgarh are requested to provide rura feeder oss data to be inked to NPP. URJA App The URJA App was aunched by Shri Piyush Goya, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy and Mines during the Power Ministers' Conference in Goa on 16th June

95 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. URJA App offers information in 2 Dashboards - Consumer and IPDS Dashboards on A India, State, Discom and Town eve. v Consumer Dashboard of the URJA App captures Consumer centric parameters ony from the IT system created under IPDS in 1226 towns across the country. The towns are ranked based on the monthy performance on foowing parameters: Consumer compaints redressa Reease of new service connection Average number of interruptions faced by consumer Average duration of interruptions faced by consumer Number of consumers making e-payments Energy ost / power theft i.e. AT&C oss Ranking for a the parameters is based on data from Urban IT enabed towns ony (except % oss of Power/Theft at A-India, State and Discom eve which is progressive Quartery (unaudited) data). v Discom Dashboard - progress of various components of Integrated Power Deveopment Scheme IT Enabement (Go-ive of towns) SCADA Impementation Urban System Strengthening Feeder Data on Nationa Power Porta IPDS NIT progress IPDS Award progress The App can be downoaded by giving a Missed ca on Focus is required for continuous Data sanitization by a Discoms. "UrjaMitra" Outage information system Ministry of Power has recenty aunched a key scheme caed UrjaMitra which is being impemented through REC Transmission Projects Company Limited (a whoy owned subsidiary of Rura Eectrification Corporation Limited). 93

96 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. UrjaMitra is an appication which sha faciitate the State Discoms to intimate its consumers (both urban and rura) regarding power outages (both schedued and unschedued) through SMS/ emai/ push notifications. The information regarding schedued outage sha be intimated one day in advance and in case of unschedued outages it wi be on rea time basis. System comprises a web patform and mobie app (ios & Android patforms)for citizens as we as fied staff. Mobie App is currenty avaiabe in Engish and 5 vernacuar anguages viz. Gujarati, Assamese, Hindi, Teugu & Oriya. Baance vernacuar anguages app sha be deveoped soon. The compete scheme is being funded by Ministry of Power incuding SMS charge for three years. As on date, 40 Discoms of 22 State have been inked to the system and 26 of them are using the appication activey. As on date, 4.24 Crore SMSes on power outages have been sent to the consumers. Some of the issues pertaining to this scheme are as foows: A. Foowing discoms of various states needs to start using the system as training has been aready provided: 1. Eectricity Department of Goa 2. Madhya Pradesh Madhya KshetraVidyutVitaran Company Limited, Madhya Pradesh 3. Madhya Pradesh PaschimKshetraVidyutVitaran Company Limited, Madhya Pradesh 4. Jodhpur VidyutVitran Nigam Limited, Rajasthan It is suggested that above discoms may immediatey start using the appication. B. Foowing Discoms need to provide feeder wise consumer data for UrjaMitra by 10th May, 2017: 1. Gubarga Eectricity Suppy Company Limited (Karnataka) 2. Jharkhand Bijee Vitran Nigam Limited (Jharkhand) 3. J&K Power Deveopment Department 4. Madhyancha VidyutVitran Nigam Limited (Uttar Pradesh) 5. PaschimanchaVidyutVitran Nigam Limited (Uttar Pradesh) 6. PurvanchaVidyutVitran Nigam Limited (Uttar Pradesh) 7. Kanpur Eectricity Suppy Company Limited (Uttar Pradesh) 8. DakshinanchaVidyutVitran Nigam Limited (Uttar Pradesh) 9. Eectricity Department of Manipur 94

97 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 10. Eectricity Department of Mizoram\ 11. Eectricity Department of Meghaaya 12. Eectricity Department of Nagaand 13. Eectricity Department of Arunacha Pradesh14. Eectricity Department of Lakshadweep 15. Eectricity Department of Andaman& Nicobar 16. Eectricity Department of Daman& Diu '1912' - Pan India number for Compaints on Eectricity '1912' is aocated as the short code for 'Compaints on Eectricity' It has aready been impemented by 45/50 Discoms by inking to Customer care centers estabished under R- APDRP and 7 Private Discoms across the country. 32 Discoms have made the short code To free for the benefit of the consumers, is aso being effectivey used by many State Discoms for reporting of Eectricity theft. Focus: making 1912 To free in baance 9 Discoms (Assam, KESCO, MP-W, Punjab, Puducherry, Sikkim, TN, Tripura), ensure reporting of theft on 1912, pubicity on a Discom communications to increase the awareness amongst genera pubic. Overa Status of IPDS Impementation Projects worth Rs 26,066 Crores have been sanctioned for 30 States/UTs, covering 3598 Towns in 538 circes, and an amount of Rs 2,660 Crores have aready been disbursed to States. Out of 538 sanctioned circes, NIT's have been issued for 503 circes and works have been awarded in 255 circes. A baance States are advised to expedite the bid evauation and ensure award of works, ikewise. 95

98 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 1.3 Reeased of Report-Annua Integrated Rating of Utiities Report by PFC Hon'be Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coa, New & Renewabe Energy & Mines wi reease report on Annua Integrated Rating of Utiities by PFC 96

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101 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 2. POWER REFORMS 2.1 MERIT ORDER DISPATCH AND INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLES During the ast Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States/UTs which was hed on 7th -8th October at Vadodara, it was resoved to constitute a committee on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairperson, CEA to examine the status of impementation of merit order dispatch, issues invoved therein and for ensuring proper dispatch of renewabe energy sources whie foowing the merit order principe. The Committee was aso required to suggest ways to promote renewabe energy whie maintaining proper baance between varying renewabe generation and the oad for safe & secure operation of the grid. Accordingy a committee was constituted on on "Merit Order Dispatch" under the Chairmanship of Chairperson, CEA with JS (OM) as Member Secretary and Members from POSOCO, Reguators and States incuding Southern Regiona LDC. The committee has finaised its recommendations and the gist of the same is given beow: ü MERIT ORDER OPERATION: a) SERCs may frame detaied guideines/framework of merit order operation and issue instructions to respective DISCOMs/SLDCs to dispay and update this information reguary on website. b) Merit order wi be prepared at state periphery i.e. variabe cost of generation aong with transmission osses wi be considered for merit order. c) ISTS transmission charges woud not be considered for ong term transaction as this is sunk/fixed cost.however, for short term transaction, it wi be incuded. d) In order to ensure transparency in merit order operation of the system, a web porta may be deveoped, in which merit order information of each State/DISCOM wi be avaiabe. The data may be updated every month. e) The data of state woud be coated by SLDC and wi be forwarded to POSOCO through respective Regiona Power Committee for updating on web porta. f) On daiy basis, SLDC woud send data of avaiabiity and schedued energy from each source of power on the basis of merit order aong with a deviation report specifying reason of scheduing power outside merit order if any. g) At present technica minimum norms for therma generating stations varies from 55 to 70% of capacity. CPRI may be engaged to decide technica minimum of therma generating units of 99

102 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. various capacity and vintage and norms accordingy can be notified by respective Reguatory Commissions. ü Effective impementation of Must Run status of Renewabes. a) For effective impementation of the Reguatory provisions for treating Renewabe as Must Runs, the necessary monitoring mechanism of curtaiments need to be impemented with Daiy and Monthy reporting of curtaiments in stipuated Performa. b) For optima utiisation of Renewabe Energy (RE) sources, RE generating stations shoud give reasonaby accurate forecast i.e. with accuracy of ±12% or as aid down by the respective SERC. c) A compensatory mechanism for curtaiment, considering reason of curtaiment, is suggested : (i) The provision of compensation for curtaiment woud be appicabe ony to the RES giving day ahead forecast & schedue. (ii) The decision regarding curtaiment woud be taken considering the baancing cost of renewabe generation. The baancing cost wi be pubished by appropriate commission. Ti the time the concerned SERC decares this, the baancing cost as decided by Centra commission may be appied. (iii) Curtaiment compensation sha be as per provisions in the PPA. In the absence of PPA, the compensation sha be as per reguations notified by the appropriate commission. (iv) Suggested framework for different types of compensation for curtaied energy is as given beow: - S.No. Reason of curtaiment Recommended compensation (I) Due to transmission constraints (a) Curtaiment Upto 2% of annua energy : No compensation (b) Curtaiment from 2-7% of annua energy: 50% of curtaied energy at contracted price. (c) Curtaiment beyond 7% of annua energy: Limited to 50% of curtaied energy Further, the matter wi be enquired by expert group of CEA/ POSOCO/ Powergrid to ascertain the reason for so high curtaiment. (ii) Grid security reason No compensation. Security reasons are to be given transparenty by SLDC/DISCOM in writing with parameters ike ine fows, votage or anguar difference necessitating RES curtaiment. 100

103 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. (iii) For ow system demand (i) If curtaiment is done after curtaiing conventiona generators upto technica minimum imits, then compensation at 50paise/kwh. (ii) Ese at power market price during the concerned time bock. 2.2 Simpification of tariff categories of consumers The reguatory and poicy framework in India, through the Eectricity Act 2003 and the Nationa Tariff Poicy 2016, prescribes State Eectricity Reguatory Commissions (SERCs) to be guided by principes of efficiency, transparency, predictabiity and safeguard of consumer interests whie determining consumer categorization in tariffs. However, high compexity of tariffs in the current scenario due to numerous distinctions across end users has resuted in mutipe basis of categorization. There is an overa ack of reasonabe justification for creating so many categories / sub-categories. There are two major issues in the current scenario pertaining to categorization of consumers for evying of eectricity tariffs in India: a. Mutipe categories and tariff sabs exist across States bringing in significant compexity for consumers, with tariff sabs varying from 36 in Tami Nadu to 93 in Andhra Pradesh. b. Inconsistency in categorization of certain consumer segments across States with incusion of certain consumers in a subsidized category in one State and cross subsidizing category in another. In order to identify and resove these chaenges, as we as proactivey impement a soution towards simpifying eectricity tariffs in India, a Committee has been constituted under the Ministry of Power, Government of India for deveoping a design framework for creation of tariff categories across India, to enabe uniform and homogenous eectricity tariff categorization. Based on the nationa and internationa review of tariff categorization methodoogies, and various stakehoder consutations, the Committee has recommended five major consumer categories formed on the basis of 'purpose of use' namey Domestic, Commercia, Agricuture, Industry and Institutiona. Secondary cassification coud be subsequenty done on the basis of votage eve so as to easiy monitor category-wise costs. Further cassification based on consumption may be maintained for Low Votage Domestic, Commercia and Industry sub-categories to provide benefits for ow/efficient consumption discourage high/wastefu consumption and protect the interests of certain consumers having ow paying capacity. Based on the above simpification mechanism, the tota number of tariff categories coud be restricted to around 15. Reduction in number of tariff categories wi improve transparency in setting tariffs and may we yied benefits incuding enhanced consumption, coection efficiency, aong with bringing in governance and other administrative benefits. 101

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107 3.1 Pooed tariff for NTPC pants Conference of Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 3. THERMAL At present, the merit order for the scheduing of power is decided by the respective states depending on Energy Charge Rate (ECR) of power stations wherein the concerned state has power aocation. It is seen that many stations having ow ECR are not fuy schedued and at the same time beneficiaries of other regions are not abe to schedue such ow ECR power as they do not have aocation in these projects as NTPC stations are generay regiona power station. Therefore beneficiaries of other regions have no other option but to schedue costier power avaiabe in their respective regions. Because of this reason, it has been observed that cheaper power in one region remain unutiized whereas costier power of other region is dispatched which resuts in increased average cost of power for the country. Such Un-requisitioned Surpus (URS) power either remains unutiized or traded by NTPC in power exchange whenever consents (without reca) are avaiabe from states. Trading through power exchange attracts additiona charges ike open access charges, trading margin etc. which on one hand increase the cost of power to recipient state and on the other hand reduces gains to origina beneficiary state. In order to maximize utiization of cheaper power, NTPC has brought a concept of fixed charge tariff pooing which envisage nationa merit order operation of a NTPC stations which wi effectivey reduce the average energy charge rate (ECR) of a NTPC stations and benefit a states. This wi provide a framework for URS power from one region to be schedued by other region since fixed charges of a states are pooed thereby repacing the costier power, resuting in net savings to their end consumers. Under the this concept, the Fixed Charges (Capacity Charges) of a NTPC Stations sha be pooed based on per MW basis which means a states woud pay at the same rate of fixed charges post FC pooing in terms of Rs Cr/MW. FC pooing wi aso ensure ony margina increase in fixed cost iabiity for new capacity addition. There wi however not be any change in the origina aocation of capacity of any Beneficiary from respective stations for the purpose of cacuation of ECR. In the concept of FC Pooing, state woud continue to give station wise schedue but generation of NTPC stations woud be stricty done based on merit order at nationa eve by first operating owest ECR to higher ECR subject to transmission constraints. Among a NTPC units, after meeting the schedue from cheaper stations, very few wi be kept on Technica Minimum & others wi be in reserve shutdown. Based on a case study carried out on data, it is found that the proposed FC pooing woud have resuted in saving of around paise/kwh in ECR on overa generation of around 242 BUs generated by NTPC stations. Further, it wi aso be in the interest of those beneficiaries having major aocations from oder pants to participate in the FC Pooing as the oder units wi be phased out and repaced by new capacity due to compiance of strict environmenta norms & ageing of the pants. 105

108 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Proposed pooing wi be beneficia for a states and wi enabe optimum utiization of existing faciities whie meeting states requirement from cheaper stations of NTPC. Concept of pooing of cost is aready being impemented in various major infrastructure sectors ike power transmission charges, raiways, stee, coa, petroeum etc. At present, even in case of N e aready being done as per exiting CERC Reguation. 3.2 Ash management system (Launching of mobie App) and Sensitize States to use treated sewage water in therma power pant Background In India, about 80% of power requirement is being met by coa based therma power pants. Large quantity of ash is generated at coa/ignite based Therma Power Stations in the country, which not ony requires arge area of precious and for its disposa but is aso one of the causes of poution of both air and water. Coa based Power Pants in the country are generating about 200 miion tonne of fy ash annuay. It wi reach to about 300 miion tonne by The present ash utiization rate is at country eve is about 61% (as per CEA's report for ). However, MoEF&CC vide their amended notification dated stipuates 100% utiization of fy ash by December, Additiona provisions stipuated to power pants are as under: ü ü Therma power pant has to bear transportation cost of ash up to 100 km and share equay with construction agency beyond 100 km and up to 300 km for road construction projects, or for manufacture of ash based buiding products or as soi conditioner in agricuture. Further, therma power pants have to bear entire cost of transportation of ash for road construction projects under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna and asset creation programmes of the Government invoving construction of buiding, road, dams and embankments within a radius of 300 km. Present status on Fy Ash utiization In the year , about miion tonne ash was produced by 151 number of therma power pants and miion tonne ash was gainfuy utiized in various appications which is about 61% of tota ash production. The major areas of ash utiization are (i) manufacture of cement and concrete (25%) (ii) manufacture of bricks & ties (8.35%) (iii) recamation of ow ying areas (7.09%) (iv) Ash Dykes raising (6%) (v) mine back fiing (5.85%)(vi) Road & fy over embankment constructing (2.83 %) (vii) agricuture (1.25%) and (viii) other areas( 4.6%). Concerted effort is required by a the states to improve the utiisation incuding disposa of existing stocks. As per the CEA's report (i) 7 states namey Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Benga have generated more than 10 miion-ton of fy ash with U.P as the 106

109 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. maximum of miion ton during the Year (ii) Simiary, States of Gujarat, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, and West Benga achieved the fy ash utiization eve of more than 90 %. State Wise Fy Ash Generation and its Utiization during The Year are as foows: S.N State No. of TPS Fy Ash Generation Fy Ash Utiization Percentage (Miion tonne) Miion tonne) utiization (%age) 1 Andhra Pradesh Bihar Chhattisgarh Dehi Gujarat Haryana Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Uttar Pradesh West Benga Grand Tota Ash Management Pans Concerted efforts incuding specific poicy interventions are to be made to ensure 100% utiisation of fy ash as per MoEF notification. Every Therma Power pant shoud prepare its Ash management Pans - Yearwise pan as we as perspective Years Pan to achieve 100% fy ash utiization by December 2017 as stipuated by MoEF&CC. These pans shoud be submitted to Centra eectricity authority (CEA) for monitoring. 107

110 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Therma power pants sha conduct awareness/training programme/ workshop, in the adjoining rura areas up to 100 Km distance of the power pant on methods of manufacturing and utiization of fy ash bricks etc. though advertisement in oca papers, jinges in oca anguage in regiona TV / Radio channes, hoardings/ wa paintings, roing messages on TV screens etc. This wi be a part of their Corporate Socia Responsibiity (CSR). To improve the utiisation of fyash and assist the generators in this endeavour, foowing efforts are being made by Ministry of Power and NTPC Ltd.: ü Monitoring Porta for Fy Ash Utiisation To monitor the fy ash utiisation by individua Power pants against the ash management pan, a monitoring protoco for fyash utiisation has been prepared and avaiabe at the site of MOP/CEA. Power pants are requested to upoad the data onine on a monthy basis atest by 7th of every month, so that effective monitoring may be ensured. Therma Power Pants sha upoad Quantum of fy ash generated month wise, and tota quantum of fy ash disposed to the consuming industries and cumuative amount of fy ash avaiabe in the ash ponds at month end. This report woud aso be submitted to NITI Aayog on quartery basis. ü Launching of Mobie APP For Fy Ash Users A mobie app is being deveoped to ink up/connect the fyash generators i.e. Therma power pants and fyash users. This app wi have the foowing provisions: Ø Updated data of Power utiities on fy ash generation, its avaiabiity at therma power pant, ocation of pants etc., Ø Location of fy ash avaiabe in the vicinity (100 Km & Km) for fy ash users. Ø Faciity to potentia user to appy onine for issue/ suppy of ash by the power pant to reduce time ag in officia correspondences A the states are requested to direct the power utiities in their state to utiise this app to meet the requirements of fy ash users. Action required by State Power Departments States may impress upon Therma Power pants in its states for making their individua Ash management Pans - Year-wise pan and five Years Pan to achieve 100% fy ash utiization by December 2017 as stipuated by MoEF&CC. i. Each power pant sha accord highest priority to ash utiization rather than focus on revenue earning by restricting sae. Earning revenue sha not be the guiding factor in protecting environment. 108

111 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. ii. Foowing suggestions may be impemented by States to ensure the increased ash utiisation: Ø Promotion and utiization of fy ash bricks in government construction programmes through incusion of fy ash bricks in specification and bi of quantities in the projects of PWD/ Housing Boards, PHE/Pradhan Mantri Awas Yjna for Rura areas and Urban areas etc. Ø Promotion and utiization of fy ash bricks in government construction programmes through incusion of fy ash bricks in specification and bi of quantities in the projects of PWD/ Housing Boards, PHE/Pradhan Mantri Awas Yjna for Rura areas and Urban areas etc. Ø Deveopment of Ash Park in designated industria parks/ areas near demand / urban area having mutipe faciities such as common ogistic faciities (Rai/Road) for inbound raw materia and outgoing finished products, storage faciities of raw materia/ finished products, quaity testing and issue of quaity check certificate for ash based products. Ø Discouragement for manufacture of cay bricks and its use in government construction and aso by pubic at arge through awareness programmes. Ø (IRC) specification no. SP need to be adhered. Provision for use of ash and its source of power pant sha be incorporated right from DPR of road project, its specifications, tender documents and bi of quantities. It may be pursued at State PWD/ State RDC / Panchayat eve. Ø Support of oca administration in Identification and aocation of ow ying areas / mine quarries / pits in the vicinity of therma power pants, so as to deveop these areas for usefu purposes & enhancing ash utiization by TPPs Use of Treated Sewage Water by power pants ü Our eectricity demand is growing at a rate of 6%. Coa based therma generation capacity is estimated to reach about 277 GW by the end of year It wi require huge qauntity of water for the power pant operation. One unit of eectricity (kwh) generated from coa requires about 3 itres of water and at present the annua generation for the therma power pants is around 950 BU which requires about 2800 miion cubic meter / annum (around 7700 MLD). The requirement of water is ikey to grow to 12000MLD by the year Difficuties are aready being faced in existing therma power pants due to non-avaiabiity of water. ü With the increasing popuation & rapid urbanisation, there is more and more pressure on existing fresh surface water sources and even on ground water acquifers for meeting the needs of drinking as we as irrigation water. Thus, it has become imperative to conserve the fresh waters sources to the utmost extent for priority use of drinking & irrigation water as a principe. ü To conserve fresh water, Ministry of Power is promoting use of treated sewage water in therma power pants. The untreated wastewater is a potentia poutant which contaminates ground, ground water, rivers and natura drainage system causing poution in downstream area. 109

112 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. ü It is against the above backdrop, i.e., to conserve fresh water, use of treated sewage water by power stations wherever power pants are within a radius of 50 km from the STPs has been made mandatory in the revised Tariff Poicy dated 28th January, ü As per CPCB, out of tota MLD (approx.) estimated sewage generation in the country, about MLD is being treated at present. With the increasing popuation, high rate of urbanization in coming years and various scheme aunched by Govt of India, such, Smart Cities Programme, AMRUT, Natina Mission for Cean Ganga(NMCG) sewage treatment capcity wi grow further. The arge voume of sewage offers tremendous potentia for its use in therma power pants and conserve fresh water for drinking and irrigation purposes. GOI Initiative in Use of treated sewage water in power pants ü The activity of mapping for power station within the vicinity of 50 km from STPs across the country has been undertaken. The centra utiity NTPC has aready taken a ead roe in this regard and has identified five (5) coa based power stations namey Soapur, Mouda, Meja, Dadri & up-coming Patratu power station for use of treated sewage water to cater to the makeup water requirement and has reached the stage of binding agreement with Soapur municipa corporation for Soapur Power Station. Simiary for other NTPC stations, active negotiations with respective municipaity and parae process of finaisation of detai scheme and DPR are going on. As regards state power utiities, MAHAGENCO has aready tied up with Nagpur Municipaity Corporation through a ong term agreement for suppy of treated sewage water to their Koradi Power station in Maharashtra. Various Issues ü Based on the water quaity data avaiabe, it may be necessary to provide tertiary treatment pant in addition to secondary treatment being done at STPs, for achieving required power pant water quaity. As such, additiona investment may be required by the power pants for the tertiary treatment pant and treated water conveying pipe ine from STPs boundary up-to the door step of power pants. Any such investment, on this account is aready made pass through in the tariff poicy and this cost sha be factored into fixed costs so as not to disturb the merit order of such therma pant. ü Aso since quantity of sewage generation varies with the time of the day, the treated sewage water quantity aso wi vary over the day and, therfore, may require storage faciity to cater to such fuctuation and maintain a uniform suppy round the day on 24x7 basis. ü Power pants may adopt suitabe business mode with municipaities for usages of treated sewage water, based on either PPP mode with fu or partia investment from PPP partner of municipaities/utiities or on EPC mode with fu investment made by utiity aone or municipaity aone or both. 110

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115 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 4. ENERGY CONSERVATION 4.1 ENERGY EFFICIENT AGRICULTURE PUMPS India's tota expected eectricity consumption is about 1000 biion units in which consumption of Agricuture sector is projected at about biion units during the year , which hods about 17.30% of the tota consumption. As per the avaiabe data, more than 21 miion pump sets are instaed in agricuture sector, majority of the pumpsets are inefficient. Statistics shows that 2.5 to 5 akh new pumpset connections are added every year to the sector. The rura agricutura eectricity is characterized by: ü ü ü ü Low reiabiity due to high cost of service and ow or no revenue. Lack of awareness among farmers for energy efficiency practices. Use of inefficient pump sets by farmers due to ack of incentives given the ow or no cost power suppied. The unsustainabe growth rate, ow prices inevitabe ead to a high subsidy burden on the states. Agricuture Demand Side Management scheme is one of the sub-scheme of Demand Side Management scheme approved in September The objective of this scheme is to reduce energy consumption in energy intensive agricuture sector. The agricuture sector accounts for approximatey 80 percent of India's tota water consumption and pumps are the most vita eement of the irrigation process. Aong with expanding the area of irrigation, pumps aso hep to reguate the water fow. As a resut, farmers have become more dependent on pumps for their irrigation needs. Energy efficiency and Demand Side Management are important toos to contro the demand of eectricity. Hence the demand side management of agricuture pumps has the abiity to significanty diminish the demand-suppy gap. Awareness on energy efficiency measures/practices among farmers/stakehoders is one of the major keys to induce energy efficiency in agricuture pumping sector. Therefore, it is essentia to buid the capacities of stakehoders ike officias of Distribution Companies, state agricuture department and farmers for energy efficient practices reated to pumpsets operation & maintenance, eectricity suppy improvement etc. Demand Side Management (DSM) has often been considered as one of the key strategies capabe of offering unique opportunities to showcase efficient use of energy. The programme coud significanty infuence and change the equipment buying habits of end use consumers so that they 113

116 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. prefer to adopt efficient technoogies. Pump set efficiency up-gradation is one the key aspects of Demand Side Management measures in agricuture sector. Agricuture Demand Side Management promises immense opportunity in reducing the overa power consumption, improving efficiencies of ground water extraction and reducing the subsidy burden on the states without sacrificing the service obigation to this sector. It aso presents a promising prospect of targeting subsidies directy to the beneficiary farmers. By mere repacement of inefficient pumps, the overa eectricity savings (from 21 miion pumps) is estimated at around 50 to 60 biion units annuay. 114

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119 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 5. CYBER SECURITY AND PROMOTION OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS 5.1 CYBER SECURITY IN POWER SECTOR Information Technoogy has an important roe to pay in the Power Sector. Recognizing the critica importance of Cyber Security of Indian power sector, various security reated activities need to be carried out at the nationa, state eve and pant eve for creation of a secure cyber space. Background Power sector is identified as one of the sectors vunerabe to cyber-attacks. Power sector has started depoying smart grid technoogies, the operations in such groups are controed by the software embedded in the hardware. The equipment instaed at the power stations aso needs to be tested. Ministry of Power has taken foowing steps in this regard CERT-Therma has circuated Sectora Crisis Management Pan (CMP) to Therma Utiities. CERT- Hydro has submitted Sectora CMP for Hydro to CERT-In for review. PSLF Division of CEA has prepared Sectora CMP for Disaster Management which incudes Generation, Transmission & Distribution sectors. ü ü ü ü ü ü Power Sector Computer Emergency Response Teams in the areas of Therma (CERT-Therma), Hydro (CERT-Hydro), Transmission (CERT-Trans.) and Distribution (CERT-D) have been set up. Cyber Security Mock Dris in coordination with Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT- In). Advisories issued by Ministry of Home Affairs, CERT-In, Nationa Critica Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) and Ministry of Eectronics and Information Technoogy (MeitY) with respect to Cyber Security matters are circuated to Sectora CERTs. Information Sharing and Anaysis Centre-Power (ISAC-P) has been set up at CEA for information on cyber threats/incidents, sharing of information and response mechanism for mitigation. A utiities of the State/UTs and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) have been asked to identify a senior executive as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to ead the process of strengthening organizationa systems with respect to cyber security and impement an Information Security Management System (ISMS) and prepare Crisis Management Pan (CMP) as recommended by rues framed under the Information Technoogy (IT) Act

120 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Expectation from States/UTs ü ü ü ü ü Crisis Management Pan at utiity eve Detaied review of Cyber Security by top management Reguar audit of Cyber Security preparedness incuding pant eve Mock dris in coordination with CERT-In and Sectora CERTs incuding pant eve Nomination of CISOs at utiity/pant eve 5.2 Promotion of Payments through Cards and Digita Means Government of India is promoting digita payment and cashess transaction in the country to bring transparency and productivity in the system. In view of this, Government of India decided that Payment by cards or digita means shoud be encouraged for a Government payments and coections. Payment of eectricity bi by onine/digita means is one of the identified areas. Background To encourage digita payments, Merchant Discount Rate (MDR)/ convenience fee charged by States/DISCOMS on eectricity bi to be subsumed in tariff structure and absove the consumers from paying these charges. ü ü ü ü Ministry of Power has taken foowing steps in this regard:- Communications were sent to States/DISCOMS regarding promotion of Payment through cards digita means, 1% cash back/discount, waiver of convenience fee/charges to the customers provided on eectricity bis and to submit the status vide communications dated , , , , , , , , and Out of 18 States/DISCOMS who have reported, in 13 Consumers borne the MDR charges. In one it is partiay borne by the State/Consumer. In 4 it is borne by the State/DISCOM. States/DISCOMS were aso briefed on these issues in the monthy review meeting chaired by Secretary (Power) hed at Guwahati in November 2016, at Bhubaneswar in December 2016 and subsequent RPMs hed at Dehi. ü Issue was aso discussed in the Forum of Reguators (FoR) meeting hed on

121 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Expectation from States/UTs ü ü ü ü ü ü Faciity to pay by Credit/Debit Cards/ through POS (Point of Saes) at Power Department Offices. The convenience fee/ MDR for the usage of digita payment modes have to be subsumed as part of the tariff structure itsef and shoud not be charged to customers. Cash incentive when payments are done digitay. Onine payment mechanism through website of DISCOM/Utiity/Power Department need to deveoped Promotion /Pubicity of these initiatives, on various patforms audio-visua, socia media, print etc. may be expored. Aso the same be got printed on the bi itsef. A payment to empoyees, contractors and vendors shoud be done through eectronic modes ony. 119

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125 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 6. MINISTRY OF NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY 6.1 Guideines for Renewabe Energy Projects Introduction The past three years have seen exponentia growth and paradigm shift in India's renewabe energy sector. At the same time one is aso witnessing substantia decine in the price of procurement of soar and wind power. Each and every segment of renewabe energy i.e. soar, wind, biomass, hydropower, biomass, waste to energy are being harnessed to their fu potentia as the government aims to fufi its objective of providing 24x7 power to a househods by Apart from the fact that everyday new strides are being taken within the country in the RE sector, India is paying a pivota roe in the internationa arena as we. The setting up of the Internationa Soar Aiance with its headquarters in India and having 121 soar rich countries ying either fuy or partiay on the tropic of cancer is indicative of the fact that the goba community is equay serious about the deveopment of eectricity from cean sources. Enhancement of Targets \ The Government has up-scaed the target for overa renewabe energy capacity by more than 5 times to 175 GW by the year 2022 which incudes 100 GW from soar, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from bio-power and 5 GW from sma hydro-power. Leap in the Grid Renewabe Power capacity addition ü ü ü The growth of 91.57% has been achieved with capacity addition of 22.5 GW grid renewabe power during ast three years ( to ), as compared to 11.7 GW instaations during preceding three years ( to ). Today, the cumuative instaed capacity of grid renewabe power has reached to GW, which accounts for 17.52% of grid renewabe power instaed capacity from a resources. The aggregate GW grid renewabe power instaed capacity incudes 32.3 GW from Wind power, 12.3 GW from Soar power, 4.38 GW from Sma Hydro Power and 8.31 GW from Bio-Power. The Ministry is in process of deveoping a new Tariff based competitive bidding process for Grid Connected Wind and Soar PV Power Projects. Draft Guideines for the bidding process is framed as foows: Draft Guideines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Grid Connected Wind and Soar PV Power Projects Ø Basis of these Guideines Ø MNRE has prepared Standard Bidding Guideines for Wind and Soar Power Procurement under Section 63 of the Eectricity Act, These Guideines woud create reassuring framework for investors, wind and 123

126 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. soar power deveopers and distribution companies and aso hep to protect consumer interests by faciitating transparency and fairness in procurement process. Ø Scope of the Guideines Ø Long term procurement of eectricity from grid connected wind and soar PV power projects having size of 5 MW and above, through competitive bidding, by the Centra Government/ State Governments, Centra PSUs/ State PSUs/ other Pubic Sector Organisations, distribution icensees, as 'Procurer'. Ø Key Reforms taken up in the Guideines I. Project Preparedness: Issues reated to Land, connectivity, cearances etc have been streamined to expedite and faciitate setting up of projects. II. Bid Structure & Process: Bids have been aowed in Power (MW) and aso on Energy (kwh) terms for soar PV, thereby ensuring better utiisation of resources. Aso, e-bidding has been emphasised. III. PPA Minimum PPA tenure - 25 years Uniatera termination or amendment of PPA not aowed IV. Generation Compensation for Offtake Constraints: 'Must-run' status for wind and soar projects stressed upon mgeneration Compensation provided for foowing off-take constraints: mback-down - Min. Compensation 50% of PPA Tariff mgrid unavaiabiity - Compensation by way of Procurement of Excess Generation/Outright Compensation V. Events of Defaut and the Consequences thereof: Foowing defauts incuded and eaborated: m"generator" event of defaut m"procurer" event of defaut This ensures that the risk sharing is ceary spet out between various stakehoders, thereby bringing certainty and carity. 124

127 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. VI. Termination Compensation Generator Defaut: (a) Damages, as mentioned in PPA, payabe to the Procurer. (b) The Procurer may take over the Pant at 90% of Debt due. Procurer Defaut: Generator may choose either of (a) & (b) beow: (a) Procurer takes over the Project assets and pay debt due and 150% of Adjusted Equity, (b) Generator gets damages equivaent to 6 months, or baance PPA period, whichever is ess, of charges for contracted capacity, and retains the assets Thus, the investment by Generator and the enders is secured against any arbitrary termination of PPA. VII. Payment Security Mechanism Provision for payment security commensurate to 3 months' average biing, by way of (a) LC, (b) Payment Security Fund, (c) State Government Guarantee Thus, the Generator need not worry about any revenue getting bocked or deayed. VIII. Change in Law: Effective from the ast date of bid submission. IX. Eary-Commissioning and Part-Commissioning: Eary commissioning and part commissioning have not ony been aowed, but incentivised, by way of aowing the PPA for a minimum 25 years from the Schedued Commissioning Date. Thus, there wi be increase in the PPA term, corresponding to this eary commissioning of fu/part capacity. X. Rationaisation of Penaty: The penaties have been rationaised, so as to reduce the overa cost to the Generator, whie at the same time, ensuring compiance with the Commissioning Schedue/Scheme Guideines. Ø Many of these key reforms form part of the PPA offered by RUMS, MP and which has enabed it to secure ow tariffs. Issues: Ø States/ UTs are advised to invite bids for Soar Power based on these guideines. 125

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131 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 7. Ministry of Coa 7.1 Fexibiity in utiization of domestic coa for reducing the cost of power generation (Toing) The Cabinet had approved the proposa of the Ministry of Power on for fexibiity in utiization of domestic coa for reducing the cost of power generation. The methodoogy finaized in consutation with stakehoders has been approved by Ministry of Power and issued by CEA on CEA vide its etter dated issued methodoogy for use of coa by State in Private Generating stations (IPPs). 15 Gencos have executed suppementary agreement with subsidiary coa companies of Coa India Limited for ACQ of Mt. Some of the Gencos have not executed suppementary agreement. Ti date, no revised aocation of coa quantity has been received at CIL. 7.2 Use of domestic coa instead of Imported coa In an endeavor to reduce the import of coa by the therma power pants, the pants having inkages and aso importing coa have been approached by CIL and offered higher grade coa without evy of Performance Incentive on the import substitution coa. This opportunity is being avaied by Gencos/IPPs. In comparison to Apri to March, 2016, coa imports by Power pants based on indigenous coa during the same period in for CPSUs have reduced from MT to MT, resuting in reduction of imports by MT (i.e.61 %). Aso for the period of , coa imports by State Sector Power pants based on indigenous coa have reduced to MT from MT, resuting in reduction of imports by MT (i.e. 39 %). Overa coa import in the country, in is MT which was MT in , resuting in a reduction of 19 % in coa imports by Power sector. 129

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135 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 8. MINISTRY OF MINES 8.1 Auction Preparedness of bocks for aready under preparation by the States A tota of 64 major minera bocks have been notified by 9 States for auction ti21 bocks has been successfuy auctioned across 7 states up to , having estimated vaue of minera resources over Rs. 93,190 crores. The tota estimated revenue to the state government over the ease period stands at Rs 73,359 crores. In the ast CCEC meeting hed on , the State Governments informed about avaiabiity of minera bocks to be put up for auctionduring , which are given in Annexure VI. The States are requested to confirm with the detaied ist of these bocks. The preparedness of the States for auction of minera bocks in wi be discussed in the conference- ü ü ü ü 24 Minera Bock Annued to be taken up for re-auction. Minera bocks avaiabe after apsing of 10A (2) cases. Minera bocks ready for auction in aong with their timeine. Minera bocks under different stages of exporation in the pipeine for auction. The Ministry of Mines had faciitated the auction process extending support through IBM, GSI and various PSU's such as MSTC, MECON, MECL & SBICAP. The State Governments may now directy engage suitabe agencies for any further handhoding requirements for auction of these minera bocks of apsed eases. It is essentia to faciitate and expedite various cearances/ approvas required after the minera bock is aocated through e-auction. An inter-ministeria group i.e. Post Auction Mining and Approvas Faciitator (PAMCAF) has been constituted comprising of a stakehoders at various eves for the same. An onine porta and mobie app - Transparency, Auction Monitoring & Resource Augmentation (TAMRA) has been aunched to monitor the various cearances/ approvas and to further the 'EASE OF DOING BUSINESS'.The State Governments are requested to reguary update the information on TAMRA porta and monitor the cearances through it. 133

136 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 8.2 Status of project impementation under Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kayan Yojana (PMKKKY) The District Minera Foundation (DMF) has been created by theamendment of the MMDR Act, with effect from 12thJan, 2015, to address the ong time grievance of the peope affected by mining. The contributions of 30 % of additiona royaty by existing miners and 10% by miners granted mines after the MMDR Amendment w.e.f The Centra Government has formuated PradhanMantriKhanijKshetraKayanYojana (PMKKKY). It is to be impemented by the District Minera Foundation (DMF)'s of the respective districts. It has been issued as a directive under Section 20A of the Act by the Centra government on The projects impemented under PMKKKY wi hep create a congenia mining environment, ameiorate the condition of the affected persons and create a win-win situation for the stakehoders. The PMKKKY has mandated 60% of the funds to be utiized in a for High Priority Areas, such as Drinking water / Environment preservation and poution contro / Heath care / Education / Ski deveopment / Wefare of women, chidren, aged and disabed peope / Sanitation and 40% of the funds to be utiized for Infrastructure - Roads & physica infrastructure / Irrigation / Watershed deveopment. Of the 12 minera rich states,11 have framed Rues and estabished DMFs. So far, tota 287 districts in 11 minera rich states are covered under PMKKKY.Rs Crores has been coected in DMF's as on , which is given in Annexure VII. The status of coection of the money accrued in the District Minera Foundation (DMF) in the States and its utiization woud be discussed in the conference. The Ministry is in the process of deveoping a porta for monitoring of PMKKKY impementation. The States are requested to appoint Noda Officers for upoading the data on proposed porta for rea time. Some of the states, who have aready deveoped or are in the process of deveoping their IT patform for PMKKKY, need to integrate their system with the nationa porta being deveoped. The State Governments aso have been empowered to constitute DMF for Minor Mineras under the newy inserted section 15A in the MMDR Act. The States are requested to take appropriate action for setting up of DMF for minor mineras and update the ministry during the conference. 8.3 Curbing iega mining through Mining Surveiance System (MSS) with Specific Reference to Iega sand Mining A 'Mining Surveiance System' (MSS) for major mineras has been deveoped by the Ministry of Mines through Indian Bureau of Mines(IBM), with the hep of Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Appications & Geo-Informatics (BISAG), Gujarat under MeiTY for monitoring of mining activities to curb the incidences of iega mining with the use of space technoogy. The Mining Surveiance System (MSS) is a sateite-based monitoring system which can provide trigger for any mining ike activity in the vicinity of the existing mining 134

137 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. areas. The system aims to estabish a regime of responsive minera administration by curbing instances of iega mining activity through automatic remote sensing detection technoogy. In the first round, 296 triggers were generated in October, The State wise detais of triggers is given in Annexure VIII. The States were requested to do the fied verification of the triggers. In the initia phase, a tota of 296 triggers across the country covering a tota area of hectares, have been generated in the MSS in October, The status of fied verication of these triggers by the district/regiona mining officias of the State Government is as under - ü ü ü ü ü Tota triggers reports submitted 198 Number of confirmed unauthorized mine cases detected 35 Number of mining activities of minor minera 50 Number of excavation / Dumps of other mining activities 100 No of other than mining activities cases 13 States are requested to utiize MSS for curbing iega mining in minor mineras, where it is a the more rampant. The impementation of MSS for 'minor mineras' has been taken up by the State Governments with the support of State Remote Sensing Appication Centres expeditiousy for which a time-bound action pan is required. Indian Bureau of Mines wi be conducting 3 workshops with hands on training in May, 2017 at Udaipur, Bangaore and Kokata to buid capacities. The State Governments are requested to send their officers for training in these workshops, and adopt the MSS for minor mineras as we. 8.4 Minor Minera Rues Pursuant to the Supreme Court judgment dated 27/02/2012 in Deepak Kumar's Case (OA No of 2011 in Specia Leave Petition (C) No of 2009), a cearance under the Environment Protection Act, 1986, was made mandatory in respect of a minor mineras irrespective of the area of the mining ease. The States may provide the action taken for its impementation in the conference. The Ministry had issued a directive under 20A of the MMDR Act to impement transparent systems for giving minor minera concessions, especiay in the ight of Union Mines Secretary DO etter no 16/119/2015-M.VI dt at Annexure IX to the Chief Secretary of the States and the States were requested to frame the rues in this regard. The States may provide updated status in the conference. 135

138 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Minera Bock Auction up to &in pipeine for Annexure VI State Auctions ( & ) & Auctioned Annued NIT's ongoing In pipeine Andhra Pradesh 1 (Limestone) 5 (imestone) - 6 bocks (4 imestone bocks, 2 god bocks) Chhattisgarh 3 (2 Limestone, 1 God) 2 (Limestone) 1 (imestone) 7 bocks ( 2bauxite, 5 imestone ) Gujarat bocks (5 imestone bocks re-tendered, 3 imestone/mar bocks of Jamnagar district) 13 bocks under report writing (8 imestone, 3 bauxite, 1 Lignite) Jharkhand 3 (2 Limestone, 1 God) - 1 God bock 10 bocks (1 graphite, 1 Bauxite,1 iron ore, 5 imestone, 2 emerad) Karnataka 7 iron ore 7 (iron ore) - 9 iron ore bocks Maharashtra 3 (1 Iron ore, 2 Tungsten) 6 (3 Bauxite,1 Copper, 1 Manganese, 1 Limestone)- a retendered 5 bocks (2 imestone, 1 manganese, 2 tungsten) - 2 out of 5 are bocks which were earier annued. Madhya Pradesh 1 (Diamond) 3 imestone - 5 bocks (4 imestone (one to be re-tendered), 1 diamond) Odisha 3 (1 Iron ore, 1 imestone, 1 manganese) 2 Limestone 3 (2 iron ore, 1 imestone re- tendered) 7 bocks (5 iron ore, 1 imestone, 1 graphite) Rajasthan 3 imestone 2 (1 imestone, 1 copper) - 8 bocks (7 imestone, 1 copper) Tami Nadu bocks (3 moybdenum, 2 imestone, 3 graphite, 4 iron ore bocks) Tota 21 24* * - 13 previousy annued bock have been put tore-auction& from part of 19 where NITs are currenty ongoing. 136

139 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure VII The detais of tota funds coected under DMF (in respect of mining eases granted for a major mineras incuding coa) in the 11 states and its utiization(as on ) is provided beow:- S. No. Name of the State Tota amount coected(in Rupees crores) Number of Schemes aunched Tota Amount Aocated (in Rupees crores) Tota Amount Spent (in Rupees crores) 1. Andhra Pradesh schemes have been identified which are under process for impementation. 2. Chhattisgarh schemes have been identified which are under process for impementation. 3. Goa Gujarat Schemes/ Projects under DMF wi be impemented after detaied survey. NIL [under process for impementation] NIL [under process for impementation] NIL NIL [under process for impementation] NIL [under process for impementation] NIL 5. Jharkhand (i) 67 schemes have been sanctioned for drinking water and sanitation. (ii) schemes have been sanctioned for making viages free of open defections Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha schemes have been identified. 10. Rajasthan schemes have been identified Ni 11. Teangana Tami Nadu 0 (DMF not created) TOTAL

140 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. No. of Triggers Inspected (by States) (As on ) Annexure VIII State Tota Trigger Tota Inspection (%) Competion ANDHRA PRADESH % CHHATTISGARH % GOA 42 0% GUJARAT % HIMACHAL PRADESH 11 0% JHARKHAND 1 0% KARNATAKA % MADHYA PRADESH % MAHARASHTRA % MEGHALAYA 8 0% ODISHA % RAJASTHAN % TAMIL NADU % TELANGANA % Tota % 138

141 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Annexure IX Union Mines Secretary DO etter no 16/119/2015-M.VI dt at Annexure IV to the Chief Secretary of ALL States 139

142 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 140

143 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Background Note on Agenda Items of Ministry of Mines: Minera Scenario in India Mining sector is one of the core sectors of economy. It provides basic raw materias to many important industries. Mining sector (incuding fue, atomic, major and minor mineras) contributed about 2.4% of GDP in as per the data reeased by CSO.The non-coa & non-fue mineras contribute to 0.76 % of GDP. The growth in the mining sector in terms of production of mineras has significanty improved in comparison to recent past. It is pertinent to reca that the sector recorded a negative growth of 0.6% for two consecutive years ( and ). The mining sector had been hit hard due to the poicy paraysis. The mining activities had been staed owing to court cases, environmenta, reguatory and and acquisition issues. The index of Industria Production for the mining sector (both fue and non- fue) in the month of January, 2017 stood at with a corresponding growth rate of 5.3 percent as compared to the eve in the month of January, There is a noticeabe surge in minera production in India in the recent times. It is heartening to note that production of major mineras in quantity terms during , has recorded the growth of 9 % in comparison to same period ast year. The rea contributor to this growth story have been Bauxite (27 %), Chromite (33 %), Copper Concentrate (30 %), Iron ore (21 %) and Lead Concentrate (32 %) in the metaic segment. There is growth in production for a mineras having significantweightage in MCDR mineras (metaic and non- metaic) from Apri- January, is 9.04percent. The rea contributor to this growth has been chromite (18.03%), Iron ore (26.6 %) andmanganese ore. (11.62 %) in the metaic segment and Limestone (3.16 %) and Magnesite (24.36%) in the non- metaic segment. After consecutive decine in the vaue of production in the pastone year, in January, 2017 the vaue of production has registered a positive growth of %due to rise in price of mineras & metas. This growth story is significant as internationa commodity market is sti strugging to come out of the state of turmoi, owing to weak signas coming from the Chinese economy. Present economic scenario and minera sector impication o GLOBAL SCENARIO Sowdown in commodity market Rebaancing in China Non-economic factors such as geopoitica tension and poitica discords are generating uncertainty Sowdown in investments and trade. 141

144 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. o INDIA SCENARIO However, India remains at a bright spot with strong growth of GDP estimated at 7.11% in and rising rea incomes. RBI's atest rounds of forward ooking surveys indicate an improvement in the v v v Overa business situation; Pubic investment in infrastructure sector - especiay in roads and raiways Likey to have a positive impact on the metas industry and wi boost the demand for mineras ike Iron, Auminum, Copper, Zinc, etc. Strengthening commodity prices make new year more favourabe for mining projects Budget Aocation for infrastructure stands at a record Rs 3,96,135 crore which is further going to provide fiip to the mining sector We have a new Mission for turning "Made in India" into a goba name. In the coming years, Mining is expected to be a key industry to foster investments, both domestic and foreign, and thereby generating additiona empoyment. Vision for the Mining Sector Achieve optima utiization of India's Minera Resources through adequate investment in minera exporation, mining area infrastructure deveopment and deveopment of beneficiation & extraction metaurgy, without causing any adverse impact on the ecoogy and habitat in order to attain sef sufficiency in production of various metas; and support economic growth and emerge as a significant provider of job opportunities for our growing abour force, MMDR Act Amendment The most significant achievement of the Government was the amendment of the MMDR Act, which governs the minera sector. The Amendment has been effected from 12thJan, MMDR ACT amended in January 2015 o o o Minera Concessions Grant Through Auctions to bring transparency and remove discretion DMF: District Minera Foundation (DMF) to address the ong time grievance of the peope affected by mining NMET: Nationa Minera Exporation Trust for incentivizing regiona and detaied exporation 142

145 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. o o Mining Leases for 50 years - Existing eases deemed extended Stronger pena provisions for checking iega mining -Higher penaties up to 5 acs per hectare of the area and jai term up to 5 years The act has been amended again in 2016 for proper definition of ease area and to aow the transfer of captive eases, which have not been acquired through auction. Minera Bock Auctions In order to provide further hand-hoding support for the impementation of auctions of mining eases/pls- cum-mls, teams of GSI, IBM, MECL, MSTC, SBICAP&MECON have been deputed to the states to further assist in crucia activities for auctioning viz. area demarcation by tota station &DGPS, transaction advisory, compiation and digitization of GRs, auctioning patform, etc. The necessary rues enabing the auction of minera bocks under the MMDR Amendment Act, 2015, viz. Minera (Evidence of Minera Content) Rues & Minera (Auction) Rues were notified soon after by the Ministry. The Ministry aso formuated the 'Mode' tender documents to faciitate the State Governments to expedite the auction process. Senior officers from Ministry of Mines were aso deputed to different States for faciitating the preparedness of avaiabe bocks for auction. Ti now, 64 major minera bocks have been notified by 9 States for auction. The auctioning resuts as on , which are successfuy auctioned: Ø Ø Ø 1 imestone bock in Andhra Pradesh concuded on imestone bocks and 1 god bock in Chhattisgarh concuded on , and respectivey. 2 imestone bock and 1 god bock in Jharkhand concuded on and respectivey. 143

146 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Ø Ø Ø Ø 7 iron ore bocks in Karnataka concuded from to Diamond bock- First ever diamond bock auctioned in the country in the state of Madhya Pradesh concuded on imestone bocks in Rajasthan concuded on , and respectivey. 1 iron ore bock in Odisha concuded on and 1 imestone and 1 manganese bock each concuded The summary resuts of the 21 successfu mining bocks put to auction across the country show that minera with estimated vaue of resources over Rs. 93,190 crores have been disposed of in a transparent manner. The tota estimated revenue to the state government over the ease period stands at Rs 73,359 crores. Out of this the cumuative Royaty, DMF and NMET contributions works out to be Rs. 15,825 crores (Rs. 14,130 crores, Rs.1,413crores and Rs.283 crores, respectivey). The success of e-auctions has not ony put a stamp of approva on the auctioning scheme as envisaged by the Ministry, but, more importanty it wi harness substantia additiona revenues to the states' exchequers far much more than what is being coected through royaty. Success of auction procedure is dependent of host of factors incuding demand and suppy configuration of the ore in the vicinity, the quantity and grade of ore, its consumption pattern, quaity of the mineraization studies, and ownership pattern, coastine environment restrictions wherever appicabe, genera du market scenario and any end use conditions imposed by the states in the bidding documents. e-auction had to be annued due to insufficient number of appications of initia bids for 37 bocks for which the issues were identified as given beow: v v v v v v the quantity and grade of ore, quaity of the mineraization studies, and ownership pattern, genera du market scenario any end use conditions imposed by the states in the bidding documents The apprehensions raised on average sae price notified by IBM being particuary high in imestone has been countered by the successfu auction of imestone bock at extremey high percentage of sharing of the vaue of minera dispatched up to % in one of the bocks of Rajasthan. Minera Bock Auction up to &in pipeine for

147 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. State Auctions ( & ) & Auctioned Annued NIT's ongoing In pipeine Andhra Pradesh 1 (Limestone) 5 (imestone) - 6 bocks (4 imestone bocks, 2 god bocks) Chhattisgarh 3 (2 Limestone, 1 God) 2 (Limestone) 1 (imestone) 7 bocks ( 2bauxite, 5 imestone ) Gujarat bocks (5 imestone bocks re-tendered, 3 imestone/mar bocks of Jamnagar district) 13 bocks under report writing (8 imestone, 3 bauxite, 1 Lignite) Jharkhand 3 (2 Limestone, 1 God) - 1 God bock 10 bocks (1 graphite, 1 Bauxite,1 iron ore, 5 imestone, 2 emerad) Karnataka 7 iron ore 7 (iron ore) - 9 iron ore bocks Maharashtra 3 (1 Iron ore, 2 Tungsten) 6 (3 Bauxite,1 Copper, 1 Manganese, 1 Limestone)- a retendered 5 bocks (2 imestone, 1 manganese, 2 tungsten) - 2 out of 5 are bocks which were earier annued. Madhya Pradesh 1 (Diamond) 3 imestone - 5 bocks (4 imestone (one to be re-tendered), 1 diamond) Odisha 3 (1 Iron ore, 1 imestone, 1 manganese) 2 Limestone 3 (2 iron ore, 1 imestone re- tendered) 7 bocks (5 iron ore, 1 imestone, 1 graphite) Rajasthan 3 imestone 2 (1 imestone, 1 copper) - 8 bocks (7 imestone, 1 copper) Tami Nadu bocks (3 moybdenum, 2 imestone, 3 graphite, 4 iron ore bocks) Tota 21 24* * - 13 previousy annued bock have been put tore-auction& from part of 19 where NITs are currenty ongoing. Handhoding Post Auction An Inter-ministeria group (IMG) of key stakehoder government organizations has been formed to faciitate the successfu bidder to expedite the cearances and approvas required to start mining as Post Auction Mining and Approvas Faciitator (PAMCAF). An onine porta and mobie app - Transparency, Auction Monitoring & Resource Augmentation (TAMRA) has been aunched in the Nationa Concave on Mines & 145

148 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Mineras on 15thFeb, This wi hep to faciitate and expedite various cearances/ approvas required after the minera bock is aocated through e-auction and to further the 'EASE OF DOING BUSINESS' by obviating undue deays in getting the requisite cearances. o o To faciitate and expedite various cearances/ approvas required after the minera bock is aocated through e-auction an inter-ministeria group i.e. Post Auction Mining and Approvas Faciitator (PAMCAF) has been constituted. An onine system of monitoring and faciitating of cearances under PAMCAF has been deveoped. The onine system wi aso be working on the mobie patform and woud enabe effective monitoring of the cearances and approvas. Onine Porta: TAMRA - Cearances & Approvas Monitoring 146

149 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Review the reguatory framework of the mining and minera sector The MCDR (Minera Conservation & Deveopment Rues) are the basic rues for reguating the mining reated activities in the country. It has been revised to aign it with the amended Mines & Mineras (Deveopment & Reguation) (MMDR) Act, changed ega scenario, and incorporate the modern IT systems into the minera reguation. It woud aso entai timeines on part of the Government. The MCDR wi hep the minera industry to better adapt to the egisative transition. The MCDR has aready been notified in Feb, Review of the egisative framework atomic mineras Atomic minera rues have been formuated giving greater participation of the government in exporation and mining of the Atomic Mineras, which are strategic mineras from the point of view of defense, power and sef sustainabiity in deveopment of modern technoogies. It prescribes threshod vaues of atomic minera contents, above which the responsibiity of exporation and mining wi ony be in the hands of Government and its bodies. The ambit of atomic mineras have been widened to incude mineras which are found necessariy associated with the existing atomic mineras i.e. beach sand mineras. DMF :Socio-economic Benefit Sharing DMF is meant to address the ong standing demand of the oca peope in mining areas for incusive growth. The contributions of 30 % of additiona royaty by existing miners and 10% by miners granted mines after the MMDR Amendment w.e.f The Annua budget of DMFs for major minera States woud be 6000 Cr. The Government has formuated PradhanMantriKhanijKshetraKayanYojana (PMKKKY) to be impemented by the DMFs of the respective districts. It has been issued as a directive under Section 20A of the Act by the Centra government on The PMKKKY has mandated 60% of the funds to be utiized in a for High Priority Areas, such as Drinking water / Environment preservation and poution contro / Heath care / Education / Ski deveopment / Wefare of women, chidren, aged and disabed peope / Sanitation and 40% of the funds to be utiized for Infrastructure - Roads & physica infrastructure / Irrigation / Watershed deveopment. The projects impemented under PMKKKY wi hep create a congenia mining environment, ameiorate the condition of the affected persons and create a win-win situation for the stakehoders It is in the interest of the State Governments to expedite the setting up of DMF so that these funds being accrued, may start getting utiized for the wefare and deveopment of these areas as aid down by the PMKKKY scheme. Such wefare activities are bound to create goodwi for the mining industry amongst oca popuation. The State Governments aso have been empowered to constitute DMF for Minor Mineras under the newy inserted section 15A in the MMDR Act. 147

150 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Ti Jan, 2017 of the 12 minera rich states a except TN, a have framed Rues and estabished DMFs. TN yet to start coecting funds. So far, tota 287 districts in 11 minera rich states are covered under PMKKKY. Rs Crores has been coected as on The detais of DMF coections for major mineras, as reported by the States is DMF Figures as on S.No. State Whether rues for DMF notified For Major Mineras For Minor Mineras Tota Districts Tota Number of districts in which DMF has been set up Date of setting up of DMF For Major Mineras For Minor Mineras 1 Goa Yes No N/A 2 Karnataka Yes Yes Chhattisgarh Yes Yes Odisha Yes No N/A 5 Madhya Pradesh Yes Yes N/A 6 Jharkhand Yes No N/A 7 Rajasthan Yes Yes Teangana Yes Yes N/A 9 Andhra Pradesh Yes No Gujarat Yes Yes Maharashtra Yes Yes Taminadu No No Tota

151 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. The detais of tota funds coected under DMF (in respect of mining eases granted for a major mineras incuding coa) in the 11 states as on is provided beow:- S. No. Name of the State Tota amount coected (in Rupees crores) 1. Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Teangana Tami Nadu 0(DMF not created) TOTAL The detais with regard to utiization of the funds, the number of schemes roed out by the States under DMF and the amounts sanctioned and reeased for these schemes, the foowing detais are submitted: S.No State Number of Schemes Tota Amount Aocated Tota Amount Spent aunched (in Rupees crores) (in Rupees crores) 1. Andhra Pradesh 14 schemes have been identified NIL NIL which are under process for [under process for [under process for impementation. impementation] impementation] 2. Chhattisgarh schemes have been identified. 3. Gujarat Schemes/ Projects under DMF NIL NIL wi be impemented after detaied survey. 4. Jharkhand (i) 67 schemes have been sanctioned for drinking water and sanitation. (ii) schemes have been sanctioned for making viages free of open defections. 5. Odisha 1013 schemes have been identified Rajasthan 269 schemes have been identified Ni 149

152 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. A Nationa Porta is being prepared for coating the coection of DMF funds and monitoring of the impementation of schemes under PMKKKY.NISG has been engaged by the Ministry of Mines for the deveoping the same. The States are requested to appoint Noda Officers for upoading the data on proposed porta for rea time. Some of the states, who have aready deveoped or are in the process of deveoping their IT patform for PMKKKY, need to integrate their system with the nationa porta being deveoped. Impetus on Exporation It is stated that India is argey unexpored as far as minera weath is concerned. Traditionay India's exporation spend has been ow compared to other mining economies. India accounts for ony 0.4 per cent of the word exporation budget. There is a progressive decine in the avaiabiity of non-buk surface deposits, on account of expoitation of a known deposits, which have sustained the human civiization over severa mienniums, it has become imperative word over to ook for deep seated minera resources and aso intensifying exporation in the country for meeting the ever growing need of the industry. The experience in other countries shows that reserves can increase significanty with additiona exporation and beneficiation drives by state-of-the-art technoogy, e.g. Austraia's known iron ore reserves increased hundred fod in 40 years from 400 miion tonnes in 1966 to 40 biion tonnes in 2005, whereas India's resource base of Iron ore rose from 5000 miion tonnes in 1955 to 25,249 miion tonnes in GSI has identified an OGP (Obvious Geoogica Potentia) Area of 5.71 akh sq. km and GSI woud be focusing more now on the deep seated mineras and identify the anomay area of the OGP. Therefore, thrust is to gear up the pubic sector agencies i.e. Geoogica Survey of India &MECL to speed up the exporation work. Recognising that the task is daunting, sincere efforts are being made to encourage the Private Sector to take up this chaenge. The thinking of the Government is refected in the key initiatives of NMET, NMEP poicy and engagement of agencies for being quaified for taking up the exporation work. Nationa Minera Exporation Trustcreated out of contribution from the mining ease hoders for encouraging exporation. The adoption of auctions for grant of minera concessions has greaty shifted the burden doing exporation on the Government. A Nationa Minera Exporation Trust was created out through the MMDR Amendment Act, 2015, of contributions of a sum equivaent to additiona 2% of the royaty from the mining ease hoders for undertaking exporation in the country. The Nationa Minera Exporation Trust (NMET) has been set up on The funds under NMET to be utiized for acceerating regiona minera exporation in the country. 150

153 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. 60 minera exporation projects have been approved for impementation so far. Approximatey funds of about Rs.670 crores have accrued to NMET ti 12thApri, 2017 The funds of the Trust are envisaged to be utiized inter aia for the foowing activities: o o o o o o o o Specia studies / projects to identify, expore, extract, beneficiate and refine deep seated or conceaed minera deposits. Studies for minera deveopment and sustainabe mining adopting advanced scientific technoogica practices and minera extraction metaurgy. Regiona and detaied exporation for strategic and critica mineras (e.g. rare earth eements, tin, cobat, ithium, germanium, gaium, indium, niobium, beryium, tantaum, tungsten, bismuth, seenium, moybdenum, nicke, etc). Regiona exporation in brown fied areas of Obvious Geoogica Potentia (OGP), for deep seated deposits through modern technoogies. OGP areas have higher geoogica potentia for occurrence of minera deposits. Detaied exporation in areas where regiona exporation has been competed. Ground and aeria geophysica survey and geochemica survey in OGP areas. Faciitation for setting up of a nationa core repository to encourage research. Capacity buiding of personne engaged in exporation Purposes necessary or expedient in the interest of conservation, deveopment and expoitation of minera resources as decided by the Governing Body. Further, there is a progressive decine in the avaiabiity of non-buk surface deposits, on account of expoitation of a known deposits, which have sustained the human civiization over severa mienniums, it has become imperative word over to ook for deep seated minera resources and aso intensifying exporation in the country for meeting the ever growing need of the industry. The experience in other countries shows that reserves can increase significanty with additiona exporation and beneficiation drives by state-of-the-art technoogy, e.g. Austraia's known iron ore reserves increased hundred fod in 40 years from 400 miion tonnes in 1966 to 40 biion tonnes in 2005, whereas India's resource base of Iron ore rose from 5000 miion tonnes in 1955 to 25,249 miion tonnes in GSI has identified an OGP (Obvious Geoogica Potentia) Area of 5.71 akh sq. km and GSI woud be focusing more now on the deep seated mineras and identify the anomay area of the OGP. Traditionay India's exporation spend has been ow compared to other mining economies. India accounts for ony 0.4 per cent of the word exporation budget. Further, ony 11 companies have panned 151

154 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. exporation activity in India. India needs to increase its exporation spend to keep reserve deveopment in ine with production. The government has worked towards making a Nationa Minera Exporation Poicy, to address the issues in minera exporation. The avaiabe geoogica reports of GSI are being converted in digitized format and being made avaiabe in pubic domain to aid the deveopment and research of mineras and hep in exporation efforts. Simpification of procedures for exporation 1. Onine Core Business Integrated System (OCBIS) State-of-the-Art IT enabed patform integrating core activities of GSI Rea-time coaboration and interaction with stakehoders Sharing a baseine geosciences data in a geospatia patform in pubic domain 2. The efforts are underway to simpify the procedures for taking up exporation projects, which wi be essentia to boost exporation. The foowing steps have been made in this direction - Ministry of Defence (MoD) has agreed for reaxation of restrictions imposed on sharing baseine geoscientific data in pubic domain. Directorate Genera of Civi Aviation (DGCA) requested to faciitate expeditious accordance of survey/fight reated approvas. MoEFCC requested to reax provisions for requisite forest cearances for carrying out minera exporation. Nationa Minera Exporation Poicy (NMEP) A Nationa Minera Exporation Poicy is has been notified after being approved by the cabinet on 29th June, 2016, to provide a framework for fostering exporation activities by private sector companies, primariy to attract private exporation companies. TheSaient features of NMEP:- o o o o Attracting private agencies through revenue sharing mode. Generation and dissemination of baseine geoscientific data by the govt. as pubic good. Aerogeophysica survey of the whoe country. Creation of a Nationa Geoscience Data Repository GSI has aready identified 100 bocks for detaied exporation for impementing such schemes. SBICAP has 152

155 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. been engaged as a transaction advisor to formuate the revenue sharing mechanism. The tentative distribution of 100 bocks being panned is - o o o PSUs are being given 19 bocks GSI&MECL wi be taking 30 each out of the avaiabe budget and NMETfund 21 bocks may be given to private exporers under incentive scheme A Nationa Aero-Geophysica Mapping Programme (NAGMP) is being undertaken by GSI of Rs.351 crore for the OGP area which is being funded through NMET which has been aunched by the Hon'be Minister of Mines on 8th Apri, Prevention of iega mining The iega mining has been an endemeic probem in many minera rich areas. The FIRs being registered in iega mining cases of major mineras has reached a eve of 700 in from the eve of 400 in the previous year. Whie the situation in minor mineras is becoming far worse, where more than 5300 FIRs were fied in compared to 3900 eve in the preceeding year. The increase in the iega miing cases showed that the systems in pace for checking the same were inadequate. The interests invoved and easiy manipuabe system resuted in cousion of the beneficiaries & it faied to check iega mining. Iega mining in minor mineras is rampant and is one of the biggest cause of concerns and aso intensey disturbs the ecoogy of river beds. In order to bring a check on iega mining, the pena provisions have been made further stringent through the provisions in the MMDR Act Amendment in the The States have been empowered for - o Further, a provision has been made for constitution of specia courts by the State Govt. for fast- track tria of cases reated to iega mining. o Higher penaties and jai terms have been provided in the amendment. Use of Space Technoogy for curbing iega mining issues 1. MOU WITH NRSC, ISRO IBM has signed a MoU with Nationa Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO on to undertake a piot project on monitoring of mining activities using sateite imagery and capacity buiding of IBM officers for three years incuding technica support for setting up of remote sensing aboratory in IBM. The in principe approva and expenditure sanction of 2.03 Cr has aready been accorded by the Ministry for setup of remote sensing aboratory in IBM at Hyderabad. 153

156 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. The project with NRSC is progressing we. The utimate objective of adopting this technoogy woud be abe to use for the voumetric estimation of mining excavations which form a key parameter of monitoring mining broady and is aid down specificay in the mining pan. The setting up of Remote Sensing Ce in IBM at Hyderabad is aso being expedited. 2. Mining Surveiance System(MSS) - 'Eyes watching from the Sky' A 'Mining Surveiance System' (MSS) for major mineras is being deveoped with the hep of Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Appications & Geo-Informatics (BISAG), Gujarat under MeiTY through its Digita India Program, to curb the incidences of iega mining with the use of space technoogy. The Mining Surveiance System (MSS) is a sateite-based monitoring system which can provide trigger for any mining ike activity in the vicinity of the existing mining areas. The system aims to estabish a regime of responsive minera administration by curbing instances of iega mining activity through automatic remote sensing detection technoogy. Deveoped as part of Digita India initiative and hosted on Nationa Centre of Geo-Informatics The atest Sateite image is juxtaposed on Geo-referenced mining ease maps to check any iega mining in the vicinity. It has an onine porta & user-friendy mobie app for officia reporting and aso to enabe pubic participation. MSS is one of the first such surveiance systems deveoped in the word using space technoogy. The system works on the basic premise that most mineras occur in continuity and their occurrence is not imited to the ease area but is ikey to extend in the vicinity. The MSS checks a region of 500 meters around the existing mining ease boundary to search for any unusua activity which is ikey to be iega mining. Any discrepancy if found is fagged-off as a trigger. A user-friendy mobie app for MSS has been created and aunched on 24th January, 2017 at Gandhinagar for enabing pubic participation in assisting the governments endeavour to curb iega mining, which was being used by the inspecting officias to submit compiance reports of their inspections. 154

157 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. An executive dashboard faciitating the decision support system, by which the officias can track the current status of mapping of the mining eases, reasons for triggers, the status of inspections on the triggers, the penaty evied etc. for a major minera mining eases across the country. In the initia phase, a tota of 296 triggers across the country covering a tota area of hectares, have been generated in the MSS in October, The status of fied verication of these triggers by the district/regiona mining officias of the State Government is as under - v v v v v Tota triggers reports submitted 198 Number of confirmed unauthorized mine cases detected 35 Number of mining activities of minor minera 50 Number of excavation / Dumps of other mining activities 100 No of other than mining activities cases - 13 The initia resuts of the MSS have been encouraging. Tota 296 triggers were generated initiay, which have successfuy detected the mining activity in more than 90 % cases and after the fied inspections, unauthorized mining was found in 18% of these. Inspired by its success, the States are coming forward to impement this system for minor mineras. Outcomes: Impact/ benefits of MSS The Mining Surveiance System (MSS) aims to curb instances of iega mining through automatic remote sensing detection technoogy. The main advantages of MSS are as under - Transparency : Pubic provided access to the system Participatory : The citizens aso can use this app and report unusua mining activity Bias-free: The system has no human interference Deterrence Effect : 'Eyes watching from the sky Quicker Response and Action: The mining areas wi be monitored reguary. Sensitive areas wi be monitored more frequenty. 155

158 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Effective Foow-up: The action taken on triggers wi be foowed-up at various eves ike DMG, State Mining Secretary, State Office and Headquarters Office of IBM and Ministry of Mines, GoI. 3. Unmanned Aeria Vehices Technoogy (UAVs) or 'Drones Furthering the efforts to utiise the space-technoogy after aunching the MSS, the Ministry of Mines has expored the usabiity of the Unmanned Aeria Vehices Technoogy (UAVs) or commony referred to as 'Drones', for the mining sector. Piot use of drones aunched for reguar monitoring of mining parameters, has been aunched on 16th Jaunary, 2017, in the NoaMundi Mines of Tata Stee. IBM has been asked to prepare an action pan to everage drones for increasing efficiency in reguation of mining. This woud hep in preventing piferages and aso enhancing safety. 4. Steps required to be taken for prevention of iega mining of sand There are number of compaints received by the centra government regarding high incidences of iega mining of sand across the country. The issue has been raised in the Pariament aso on number of occasions. The power to prevent and contro iega mining has been devoved to the State Governments under section 23 C of the MMDR Act,1957. It is understandabe that the state Governments are taking a possibe efforts in this regard, sti a ot needs to be done to fuy address this probem. Therefore, the issue of iega mining needs comprehensive deiberations to work out effective strategies to combat this serious issue. The State Governments are requested to come prepared with an time bound action pan in this regard in the conference. Advanced technoogies incuding the use of space technoogy based MSS, UAVs / Drones may aso be adopted in this endeavor. Sustainabe Mining Initiatives: Star Rating of Mines Hon'be Prime Minister, Shri NarendraModi addressed the UN Genera Assemby, addressing about 150 word eaders at the United Nations Sustainabe Deveopment Summit on 26 Sep, 2015 said "The principe of common but differentiated responsibiities is the bedrock of our enterprise for a sustainabe word." Taking the vision of Hon'be PM forward, the Ministry of Mines, in its endeavour for taking up exhaustive and universa impementation of the Sustainabe Deveopment Framework (SDF) in mining, has evoved a system of Star Rating of Mines. India has witnessed increased activity in the fied of mining to support the rapid economic deveopment. The expoitation of natura resources and its impact on environment and ecoogy have become far more significant. There has been concerns on the adverse impact of mining on ecoogy, environment such as poution of water, air and and affecting adversey the oca communities as we as dispacements of peope. There was an urgent need to baance mining activities vis a vis protection of environment. 156

159 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. The Ministry of Mines had formuated Nationa Minera Poicy in 2008 which emphasized that a mining sha be undertaken within the parameters of a comprehensive SDF which wi be based on the guiding principe that a miner sha restore the mined out area and eventuay hand over the mining area to the community in a better ecoogica condition than he received it. The Ministry of Mines then instituted the Sustainabe Deveopment Framework (SDF) for taking up mining activity, encompassing incusive growth, without adversey affecting the socia, economic and environmenta we-being, at present and aso in future generation. The Ministry of Mines deveoped a credibe system of evauation of mining footprints and the first piot roout of SDF was aunched in the Sukinda Chromite mine of M/s. Tata Stee in Odisha by Sri Bavinder Kumar, Secretary (Mines) on Thereon, severa other mines have been brought under the framework of SDF. The Star Rating is to be impemented through the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), a subordinate office of the Ministry of Mines. It has been instituted as a two tier system providing sef-evauation tempates to be fied in by the mine operator foowed by vaidation through Indian Bureau of Mines. Economic Environmenta and Socia Benefits of enhancing Sustainabiity in Mining by Star Rating System The draft evauation tempate for Star Rating of Mines was formuated after being widey circuated and hosted on the website of the Ministry for comments & suggestions from stake hoders. Subsequenty a stake-hoders consutative workshop was aso hed on 19th Apri, 2016 at New Dehi. Then a committee was constituted to review a suggestions received in the consutative meeting and finaize the SDF Evauation Tempate. The Committee was chaired by Shri A K Srivastava, Retired Additiona Director Genera of Forests in Ministry of Environment, Forest & Cimate Change comprising of members functioning in key areas viz. Shri Prithu Kumar - Director, Ministry of Mines, Shri P S Upadhyaya -retired Director, NMDC, Shri P N Sharma RCOM, Indian Bureau of Mines, and representatives from Federation of Indian Minera Industries (FIMI). The Committee finaized the evauation tempate for Star Rating of mines, after reviewing each of the suggestions made during the Workshop. The evauation tempate for Star Rating was notified vide notification dated The evauation has been based on the foowing parameters: Economic Environmenta and Socia Benefits of enhancing Sustainabiity in Mining by Star Rating System Ø Ø Ø Scientific and systematic mining to mitigate environmenta impact Addressing socia impacts of resettement and rehabiitation of mining affected peope. Loca community engagements and wefare programmes for socio-economic deveopment of oca community. 157

160 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Ø Ø Progressive and fina mine cosure to ensure for restoration of mined out and in better conditions then origina. Adoption of internationa standards for mining operations and reporting. Based on the performance of the mining eases, 1 to 5 star rating woud be given to the mines which have been operationa for more than 180 days in the reporting period. The Star Rating wi be done initiay for mines of major mineras. The positive impact of getting higher Star Rating wi drive miners to quicky adopt sustainabe mining practices. Initiay Star Rating on Piot basis was done manuay and 19 mines were awarded with 4 & 5 Stars at the first Nationa Concave on Mines & Mineras hed at Raipur, 4-5 Juy, 2016& Mineras hed at Raipur, 4-5 Juy, 2016 and subsequenty 32 mines have been awarded 5 stars at the 2ndNCMM on 15th Feb, The Star Rating has been incuded as statutory provision in the MCDR for time-bound (2 years) achieving of minimum 4 stars. A web enabed onine system for evauation of measures has been deveoped and aunched on 18th August, as a vita step for ensuring compiance of environmenta protection and socia responsibiity by the mining sector. Outcomes: Impact/ benefits of Star Rating System An innovative system of Star Rating of Mines has the foowing key benefits: Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Comprehensive mitigation of environmenta impacts on and, air and water by the mining activities. The onine star rating system everaging information technoogy wi more responsive, transparent and efficient. This onine system wi aso be integrated to the Mining Tenement System and the existing onine returns system. It wi entai coection of various technica, environmenta and socia data on the mining sector at one patform by IBM, which woud be utiised to enabe better management and monitoring of the compiance. The earier system was very imited ony to the technca aspects of monitoring. Avaiabiity of information on mining & conservation activities in pubic domain wi enabe greater transparency and participation of stakehoders eading to speedy resoution of conficts Intensive monitoring of restoration of the mined out areas and eventuay hand over the mining area to the community in a better ecoogica condition than he recived Encourage adoption of highest standards and sharing good practices. The spurt of growth in Indian economy in the recent years has simutaneousy witnessed increased activity in the fied of mining to support the rapid economic deveopment. The expoitation of natura resources and 158

161 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. its impact on environment and ecoogy have become far more significant. There has been concerns on the adverse impact of mining on ecoogy, environment such as poution of water, air and and affecting adversey the oca communities as we as dispacements of peope. The incidence of iega mining has further enhanced the i-effects on ecoogy & constraints on the avaiabe infrastructure and forced us to take an entirey different approach towards mining activity. The society has become more and more sensitive towards the mining activity and a debate between economic benefits of mining activity and the amount of expoitation putting constraint on our natura resources, ecoogy, etc., has become very prominent. Ø The innovative system of Star Rating of Mines evoved by Ministry of Mines in its endeavour for exhaustive and universa impementation of Sustainabe Deveopment Framework in mining, which woud besides other benefits ead to a sef-driven mechanism of the compiance of statutory mining stipuations and adoption of best practices. This woud substantiay address the i ecoogica impacts associated with mining activities. Moreover, theintensive monitoring of progressive restoration of the mined out areas by the star rating system, wi eventuay resut in ensuring the handing over of mining area to the community in a better ecoogica condition. The Onine Star Rating porta was aunched on 18th August, A tota of 758 mines of major mineras which were operationa for more than 6 months in are eegibe for star rating. Most star ratings have ben fied onine, and IBM has aso competed the inspections and awarded star rating in 560 mines. The star rating wise break up is as under Star Rating No of Mines as per onine returns No of mines vaidated by IBM 5 Star Star Star Star Star 48 Tota ABANDONED MINES An Abandoned Mines Initiative (AMI) taken up to assess and remediate the abandoned mines in the country in a time bound manner. A workshop has aready been hed on 19thDec, 2016 in coaboration with TERI and IBM. AMoUhas been signed at 2nd NCMMbetween them to draw up an action pan to address the remediation of abandoned mines and mined out areas. 159

162 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. RECLAMATION OF RED MUD Ambitious 3 years project taken up with TERI for remediation of Red Mud Dumps of NALCO. A MoUhas been signed at 2nd NCMMbetween TERI & NALCO to draw up an action pan to address the remediation of red mud dumps and the mined out areas. Use of Information Technoogy The induction of Information Technoogy for improvement in governmenta capacity of minera administration. Some states have gone ahead and aready introduced IT in their spheres of minera administration, viz. Odisha, Rajasthan, MP, etc. The Union Ministry is committed to estabishing a Mining Tenement System (MTS), which woud primariy invove automating the entire minera concession ife-cyce, starting from identification of area and ending with cosure of the mine; and connecting the various stakehoders for rea-time transfer of eectronic fies and exchange of data. This sha enabe effective management of minera concession regime and transparency in mining operations, transportation of ore with the hep of onine eectronic weighbridges and check-posts. The Mining Tenement System tender is under finaization to seect the Impementation Agency. The tender for seection of impementation agency for Mining Tenement System has aready been finaized and the Contract Agreement with M/s Wipro is executed by IBM in November, 2016 as the Impementation Agency. The basic impementation woud be competed in the 1st year itsef. The State Governments woud be important stakehoders for its impementation in terms of providing egacy data of eases and exporations, etc. 160

163 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Expediting the pending mining ease cases saved under section 10A(2) having the timeines of The mining ease appications saved under Section 10A (2) (c) (prior approva granted in cases for minera isted in 1st Schedue of the Act or LOI issued in cases for other major mineras) need to be granted subject to fufiment of the conditions of the previous approva or of the etter of intent within a period of two years from the date of commencement of the said Act, which is up to It had come to notice of the Ministry that some of such appications are sti pending for the execution of mining ease. EFFORTS MADE,OUTCOME AND WAY FORWARD IN SECTION 10A(2)(c) APPLICATIONS I) Efforts made by the Ministry of Mines for expediting the cases of mining ease appications saved under section 10A(2) of the MMDR Act inserted amendment with effect from 12th Jan, 2015 The Mining Lease (ML) appications which have been saved under Section 10A(2) of the Mines & Mineras (Deveopment & Reguation) (MMDR) Act 2015, if not granted before , woud suo motu apse. The Ministry of Mines had made serious efforts to expedite a such cases where the mining pan was sanctioned but cases were pending because of procedura deays in getting statutory cearances ike forest cearances, environment cearances etc. Their expeditious processing was important as these mining eases, which are under process of acquiring cearances, if granted, woud contribute in enhancing the minera production in the immediate future for acceerating the deveopment process in the country and increasing the nationa weath. These efforts to faciitate the stakehoders in getting cearances and approvas, highight the initiatives taken for good, citizen centric and responsibe governance. The Ministry of Mines in its endeavour to expedite such cases of Mining Leases, has organised severa rounds of discussions with the State Governments, concerned Centra Government ministries & departments and aso with the project proponents. The Ministry of Mines has coordinated with the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Cimate Change (MoEF&CC), Ministry of Triba Affairs (MoTA), Ministry of Law & Justice (MoL&J), Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) and other concerned departments, to faciitate the State Governments to be abe to grant the ease expeditiousy in such cases pending because of EC, FC and settement of forest rights. Foow up with State Governments The efforts made for expediting saved cases under section 10A(2) by way of foow up with State Governments and IBM incuded severa rounds of meetings with the States to reconcie the cases, meeting with the project proponents, raising the issue in CCEC meeting and Ministers meetings, reguar foow up etters to the State Governments, etc. by way of persistent engagement with the State Governments for expediting the process of grant of cases saved under section 10A(2). 161

164 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Pending Forest Cearances & Forest Rights Act (FRA) Cearances in such cases Regarding the cases pending for forest cearance (FC), MoEF&CCMinistry of Environment Forest & Cimate Change (MoEFCC), vide their guideines no.8-31/2016-fc, dated 17th Nov, 2016, had agreed to process the grant of Forest Cearance (FC) under section 2(iii) of Forest Conservation Act (FCA),1980 in the eigibe cases, so that project proponents can get the grant of ease. Whie mandating, that the mining activity coud commence ony after obtaining FC under section 2(ii) of FCA for diversion of the forest and i.e. after obtaining FC Stage - (I) and (II). However, whie issuing FC under section 2(iii) of FCA in these cases, MoEF&CC sought to put a condition of settement of forest rights under the Schedued Tribe and Other Traditiona Forest Dweers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA) as it was not administered by MoTA. After consutation with Ministry of Triba Affairs (MoTA), the orders were issued (avaiabe on the website of Ministry of Mines) to incorporate certain stringent conditions as vetted by MOTA in the ease deed, so that the ease can be granted immediatey after obtaining FC under section 2(iii), but the forest rights woud need be setted prior to commencement of any mining activity. Pending Environmenta Cearances in such cases Further, in respect of cases pending because of environmenta cearance (EC), after taking ega opinion with concurrence of MoL&J&MoEF&CC, we have issued notification dated (avaiabe on the website of Ministry of Mines), under the powers conferred by sub section 1 of section 24 of MMDR Amendment Act, 2015 enabing the State Governments to grant the ease in case of the pending appications without necessitating to obtain the EC, even if the same has been put as a condition in the LoI. This was admissibe as the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986 and the notifications issued under it, ony mandate the EC to be obtained before the start of mining activity and not necessariy before grant of ease. In this way, such pending cases, where mining pan was sanctioned but cases were pending because of EC, FC and settement of forest rights, the States have been faciitated by the Centra Government to be abe to grant the ease expeditiousy. Now it is up to the States how prompty they grant the ease in respect of these saved cases. Apart from these, there are certain cases pending for action / decision with the State Government mosty with Mining Dept. and some with Revenue Dept. These cases pending with the Directorate of Mining and Geoogy or Forest Department or State Poution Contro Board, and other departments of your State aso need to be expedited before the prescribed time imit. II) Outcome At the time of amendment of MMDR Act in 2015, tota 333 such cases were saved. During the intervening period of 2 years, neary mining eases of 102 cases have been granted, which means 231 cases have stand apsed on 12th Jan., These 231 bocks of apsed appications have become avaiabe, having advance stage preparation for mining. Athough some appicants have approached the courts, the rest of the bocks avaiabe are being 162

165 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. considered by the States for putting up on auction. More than 150 of these bocks, having mineras worth acs of crores, wi be put up on auction in near future and thus heping the government in furthering the minera deveopment by transparent aocation of natura resources. At the time of amendment of MMDR Act in 2015, tota 333 such cases were saved. During the intervening period of 2 years, neary mining eases of 102 cases have been granted, which means 231 cases have stand apsed on 12th Jan., The outcome of saved cases under section 10A(2) of MMDR, 2015 is compied from the data received from the States and is - States Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Tota Tota number of cases in the State as on , which were saved under Section 10A(2)(c) No action by Project Proponent (PP) (List 1) Tota No. of Cases where MP was not avaiabe A. Status as on Decision of State Govt. (Mining Department, District Adm., etc.) (List 2) Cases where EC was required for grant of ease Tota Cases where EC was avaiabe Cases where EC was under process Cases where FC was required for grant of ease Tota Cases where FC was avaiabe Cases where FC was under process B. Status as on Cases where ease was executed and registered Cases where ease was executed but not registered cases where grant order where issued under rue 8(2) of M(OTAHEM) CR, 2016 cases where a conditions of LoI/ Prior Approva were fufied by the Project Proponent

166 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. States Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Tami Nadu Teangana Tota Cases where PP has sti not initiated any action for getting cearances Tota number of eft over cases pending for processing or under process with the State Government * Tota number of eft over cases u/s 10A(2)(c) in the States Cases where EC was obtained Cases where FC was required for grant of ease Cases where EC was obtained from to No. of cases where Difficuty Order for EC was utiised Cases where FC was obtained from to u/s 2(ii) of FCA Cases where FC was obtained from to u/s 2(iii) of FCA (ony 8 executed) 17 Cases in which FRA reaxation was utiised for execution of ease where FC was under section 2(iii) A case having prior FRA 2 (Out of executed eases ) 2 Cases which coud not be executd due to pending FC Court Cases Tota no. of appicants saved u/s 10A(2)(c), fied court cases Tota No. of appicants fie court case against the timeine of 2 years No. of appicants fied court against the provision of Rue 8 of M(OTAHEM) CR, Cases in which coud not be executed Cases in which even the grant order was not made

167 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. The efforts put in by the Ministry of Mines yieded is very encouraging resuts, utimatey faciitating the saved appications in possibe ways within the ambit of the prescribed Act & Rues and thus. The foowing key points are evident from the statistics compied for the 12 major minera States - a. The efforts of the Ministry of Mines mobiised the execution of 102 mining eases in the States out of the tota 333 such cases which were covered under section 10A(2). These efforts to faciitate the stakehoders in getting cearances and approvas, highight the initiatives taken for good, citizen centric and responsibe governance. b. There were 35 additiona cases which reached the stage of grant order under rue 8(2)of the new MCR, 2016 c. EC coud be obtained in 25 cases in 2 year period d. Difficuty order issued dated enabing the State Governments to grant the ease in case of the pending appications without necessitating to obtain the EC, even if the same has been put as a condition in the LoI, heped in 32 cases e. Norma 2 Stage FC (under section 2(ii) of FCA) coud ony be granted in 2 cases in the 2 year period, where as FC under section 2(iii) of FCA coud be obtained in 17 cases out of which 13 cases got executed. f. Since, whie issuing FC under section 2(iii) of FCA, MoEF&CC sought FRA compiance, to which additiona conditions were put in the ease deed without necessitating FRA compiance for ease execution, but the forest rights woud need be setted prior to commencement of any mining activity. The order dated aso heped in saving 2 cases. g. There woud be about 231 of these bocks avaiabe (with advance stage preparation for Mining) which coud not be executed for putting up on auction by the States. Athough about 40 appicants have aready gone for court cases primariy against the requirement of ease execution as grant, but the 196 bocks where grant order had aso not been made, woud be immediatey avaiabe for putting up on auction by the States. I) Way Forward The meticuous efforts of the State governments for compiance of conditions and the grant of mining ease in the time bound manner on appications covered under Section 10A(2), within the deadine of needs to be appreciated. At the time of amendment of MMDR Act in 2015, tota 333 such cases were saved. During the intervening period of 2 years, neary mining eases of 102 cases have been granted, which means 231 cases have stand apsed on 12th Jan., These 231 bocks of apsed appications have become avaiabe, having advance stage preparation for mining. Athough some appicants have approached the courts, the rest of the bocks avaiabe are being considered by the States for putting up on auction. 165

168 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. The respective States wi now put minera bocks reated to these cases on auction where the 10A(2) appications have apsed.ministry of Mines has directed the States to take expeditious action to put a these bocks of auction in next 1-year time. Some of the States, which have maximum number of such cases, are Karnataka (59), Odisha (46), Jharkhand (33), Madhya Pradesh (28) and Chhattisgarh (19). The resource vaue of these mining eases woud be in the tune of akhs of crores, because so far, the tota resource vaue of 21 eases which have been auctioned in recent times by the States with hand hoding support of Centra Govt. is to the tune of Rs 93,190 crore. With this rough estimation, the coming year wi be very significant as minera bocks of neary 10 times more vaue wi be avaiabe to the States for auction. This wi in turn, give huge boost to minera sector. Ministry had made serious efforts to expedite a the cases where the mining pan was sanctioned but cases were pending because of procedura deays in getting statutory cearances ike forest and environment cearances and settement of forest rights. Their expeditious processing was important as the apsing of these mining ease appications, which are under process of acquiring cearances, woud contribute in enhancing the minera production in the immediate future for acceerating the deveopment process in the country and increasing the nationa weath. Revision of rates of royaty The rates of royaty and dead rent for major mineras (other than coa, ignite and sand for stowing) have been revised with effect from 1st September 2014, which has been pubished in the Gazette of India vide Notification No. 630(E) and 631(E) dated 1st September, As a resut of the revision of rates of royaty, the revenue from royaty from non-coa mineras to the State Government was projected to increase by about 40%. Notification of 31 mineras as minor mineras: 31 mineras have been notified as minor minera vide notification dated With this incusion presenty 55 mineras are cassified as minor mineras under the administrative contro of the respective State Governments. Kick-start Offshore Mining The Offshore Mining activity has not taken off in country. To kick-start the same, the Ministry is in the process of amending the egisative framework for aotment of offshore bocks. The SBICAPS has been engaged as a transaction advisor to formuate the amendment in the act and rues.. Status as on

169 Power, Renewabe Energy and Mines Ministers of States and UTs. Minor minera rues Pursuant to the Supreme Court judgment dated 27/02/2012 in Deepak Kumar's Case (OA No of 2011 in Specia Leave Petition (C) No of 2009), a cearance under the Environment Protection Act, 1986, was made mandatory in respect of a minor mineras irrespective of the area of the mining ease. The Ministry of Mines has prepared draft guideines for mining of minor mineras which was circuated to the state governments. The action had to be taken by the States in response to the directive issued by the Ministry under 20A to impement transparent systems for giving minor minera concessions, especiay in the ight of Minister of Mines DO etter no 16/119/2015-M.VI/220 dt to the Chief Minister of the States. Ski Pan of the Ministry of Mines A Ski Pan of the Ministry of Mineshas been prepared, which was reeased in the 1stNationa Concave on 4-5 Juy, 2016 at Raipur. Ski Pan has been formuated keeping in mind that is shoud enabe the workforce deveopment and resources for catering the growing needs of the Indian mining industry in times to come. The key points are as under - o o o o o Job profiing and assessment to estabish the current Essentia Skis eves of empoyees, and identifying further training that is needed to meet the mining industry goas Design and set-up of training centers for workers Deveoping capabiities for Mentorship-on-the-job workshops to improve communication and onsite training for workers, supervisors and companies Design and on-site deivery of workforce deveopment programs that increase success in technica training and on-the job performance Skis training to be taiored for workpace success Extension of Mining Leases The status of extension of existing eases to be done by the State Government for the impementation of the Sub-Section 5 and 6 of Section 8(a) of the MMDR Amendment Act, 2015 aso needs to be expedited by the State Governments Many States have not extended the existing eases as per the above provison. Way ahead The steps which are being initiated by the Ministry wi faciitate greater participation of private sector Wi enabe conducive cimate for carrying out mining in India. The new regime of reforms wi bring about various required transformationa changes in the mining sector. 167

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