India, July 28 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Revised SHAKTI Policy, 2025 is a transparent way of allocation of coal to the Power Sector. This Policy enhances scope of the erstwhile coal linkage allocation policy for Power Sector by providing greater flexibility, wider eligibility and better accessibility to coal. It encourages competition, enhances efficiency, ensures better use of capacity and provides for seamless pit head thermal capacity addition and affordable power to the country.

In furtherance of ease of doing business, the Revised SHAKTI Policy, 2025, has simplified and mapped the multiple windows for coal linkage allocation under the erstwhile SHAKTI Policy, 2017 into only two Windows as under:

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