• ●Pachhwara Central Coal Mine, in Jharkhand's Pakur district, is the captive block of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL); supply from it is subject to PSPCL meeting its statutory payment obligation to Jharkhand.
• ●Independent power producers not owned by PSPCL — Nabha Power Limited (Rajpura) and Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (Mansa) — may draw up to 50% of the mine's annual output once the specified end-use plants are served.
• ●PSPCL runs three thermal stations of 2,300 MW combined: Guru Hargobind TPS (Lehra Mohabbat), Goindwal Sahib TPP and Ropar TPS.
• ●As on 4 September 2026 stock at PSPCL plants was around 117% of the normative requirement; August 2026 PLF averaged about 42%, while Nabha Power ran at about 93%.
• ●Unlifted offers: CCL offered 5 lakh tonnes to NPL and TSPL on 30 March 2026 under RCR mode (about 4.1 LT booked, 3.1 LT lifted); BCCL offered 3.5 LT to NPL (about 1.3 LT booked, 0.98 LT lifted).
• ●Coal India Limited, a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Coal incorporated in 1975 and headquartered in Kolkata, owns both CCL and BCCL.
• ●Linkage coal for power plants without fuel supply agreements is allotted under SHAKTI — Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala Transparently in India, notified 2017 after CCEA approval; a revised SHAKTI was cleared in 2025.
• ●Coal block allocation moved to auction under the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015, passed after the Supreme Court cancelled 204 allocations in September 2014; blocks are commonly built and run through the Mine Developer and Operator (MDO) contracting model.

Coal from the Pachhwara Central mine, the captive block of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited, may be supplied to independent power producers subject to a statutory payment obligation owed to which state?