A meeting between the chairmen and managing directors of Coal India (CIL) and NTPC here on Sunday last, the first such since a change of guard at CIL, failed to break ice over the issue of signing fuel supply agreements (FSAs), even as the discussions are being seen as a sign of a thaw between the two corporates.

A possibility that has emerged from the meeting is that CIL may need to take a relook at some of ‘force majeure' clauses that it has set in the draft FSAs that power companies would need to sign with it.