{"id":8361,"date":"2023-04-07T02:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:04:10","slug":"what-is-the-neyveli-lignite-corporation-india-limited-nlcil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-neyveli-lignite-corporation-india-limited-nlcil\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Limited (NLCIL)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Limited (NLCIL):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it? <\/strong>It is a <strong>Central Public Sector Enterprise with Navratna status<\/strong> under the <strong>administrative control of the Ministry of Coal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was incorporated in the <strong>year 1956 under the Companies Act, 1956.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is involved in the <strong>fossil fuel mining sector in India and thermal power generation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It currently o<strong>perates four lignite mines,<\/strong> <strong>one coal mine<\/strong>, and <strong>six thermal power plants<\/strong>, as well as solar and wind power plants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: Neyveli,<\/strong> Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE)?<\/h3>\n<p>Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) are those companies in which the direct holding of the Central Government or other CPSEs is 51% or more.\u00a0As on 31st March 2021, there were 389 CPSEs (excluding insurance companies).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2023\/apr\/07\/nlcil-sets-new-records-in-power-generation-and-coal-production-2563429.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NLCIL sets new records in power generation and coal production<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLCIL is a Central PSE with Navratna status under the administrative control of the Ministry of Coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}