False bravado or new reality: India’s coal gasification hype meets hard engineering – 28 Oct 2025

After decades of imported technology failures, high-ash Indian coal is now dubbed as fit for gasification, with fluidized-bed systems emerging as the frontrunner.

The verdict: it wasn’t bad coal, it was bad technology.

here is also a claim that India’s 2030 target of 100 million tonnes of coal gasification now rests on three pillars: viability-gap funding, assured coal supply, and synchronized CCUS integration.

We tell you why this is more hype than real