More than a year after captive coal mines were auctioned by the government to power companies, the firms have been starved of opportunities to sell their power to state-owned power distribution companies. This is because the tenders for the power purchase agreements (PPAs) floated by the states since June last year have been only for linkage-based plants without any capacity reserved for captive coal mine-based plants.

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