India to achieve 100 MT coal gasification target by 2030 yr

Government of India is aiming for 100 million tonnes (MT) coal gasification by 2030. The announcement was made by Pralhad Joshi, Union Minister of Coal and Mines at a webinar organized by the Ministry of Coal (MoC) in New Delhi.
To achieve the target, Centre is to invest over Rs.4 lakh crores.
The aim of the revised target is to boost the production of synthetic natural gas, energy fuel, urea for fertilizers, and the production of other chemicals.
Earlier, in order to encourage the use of clean sources of fuel, GoI has provided for a concession of 20% on the revenue share of coal used for gasification.
These will fall under the development of Surface Coal Gasification in India.
Also, in this regard, GoI has constituted a Steering Committee under the chairmanship of Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member of NITI Aayog. The board comprises of members from the Ministry of Coal.
On the other hand, CIL is to set up at least 3 gasification plants (besides Dankuni) on Build-Own-Operate (BOO) basis through global tendering. For this, CIL has signed an MOU with GAIL for marketing synthetic natural gas.
Coal Gasification is the process by which coal gets converted into synthesis gas is referred to as Coal Gasification. The synthesis gas is also called Syngas. Syngas is a mixture of Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide. This gas is used in applications like making fertilizers.