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Quality India

Why QCI

To improve the quality of coal, following a large number of
complaints from power generation companies regarding
poor quality of coal, The Ministry of Coal, Central Electricity
Authority and national / state power producers decided that
a panel of reputed third-party agencies shall be engaged to
determine the quality of coal being dispatched to various
consumers from subsidiaries of CIL. As per the procedure, an
independent third-party agency was appointed by Central
Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) through an
independent and transparent process for undertaking the
work of sampling and analysis of coal at loading end on
behalf of both power producer and coal company. However,
the mandate provided to CIMFR covered only 70% of the
total dispatch. The scope excluded provision of Third-Party
Sampling (TPS) to Non-Power Consumers and e-auction
Scheme(s) for Power & Non-Power Consumers. QCI being
an organisation of national repute for assessment and
accreditation in quality ecosystem. CIL nominated QCI for
providing third-party sampling testing and analysis of coal
for various non-power consumers under long term linkage
auctions. In august 2017, QCI commenced its journey in coal
quality assessment.

About Project

For availing third-party sampling, consumers have to sign
a tripartite agreement with coal company and a third-party
agency of their choice.

The Producer, Consumer and QCI signed a tri-party
agreement called Tripartite Agreement. This agreement
on Third-Party Sampling (TPS) is meant for Coal Quality
monitoring at the loading end. The agreement mentions
about the type of coal auction and other relevant conditions
such as term of agreement, dispute resolution and SOP under
which the third-party sampling is to be done.

CIL nominated QCI for Third-Party Sampling, Testing and
Analysis of coal supplied through special forward e-auction
for power consumer/s and linkage auction for non-power
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consumer/s. Further, the scope of work has been extended to
spot e-auction/ special spot e-auction/ Shakti Scheme. The
scope of work includes:

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