Tata Power Company has decided to approach the Supreme Court after the Delhi High Court earlier today dismissed its plea contesting the Empowered Group of Ministers’ (EGoM) decision to allow the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group-led Reliance Power to use surplus coal from its captive mines of Sasan ultra mega power project (UMPP) for other projects.
Reliance Power plans to use surplus coal allocated for the Sasan UMPP for the 4000 MW project at Chitrangi in Madhya Pradesh.
Tata Power, which was also in the fray for the Sasan project, challenged the EGoM decision in the Delhi High Court in January this year, claiming that the decision was against Sasan UMPP’s tender conditions.
The Tata group company opined that the excess coal should be handed over to government-controlled Coal India, as it could benefit the state exchequer.
The ministry of power, another defendant in the case, was of the view that Tata Power had no legal right to file the petition since it withdrew from Sasan UMPP’s tender process.