With recent announcement on new climate targets by the Prime Minister at COP26 under ‘Panchamrit Strategy’, India has taken a big step towards cementing its commitment to clean energy. Since coal has to play a role of primary fuel for power generation in our country for the time being, till renewable source fully caters to our energy demand,Ministry of Coal, in line ...

Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), the leading coal producer, has dispatched over 5.47 lakh ton coal to consumers yesterday breaking its own record of 5.45 lakh tonne within a fortnight. The Company dispatched the highest ever 103 rakes of coal with 65 rakes coming from Talcher coalfields while 38 rakes were supplied from Ib Valley coalfields. Shri P K Sinha, Chairman-cum-Managing ...

After successful auction of 28 coal mines in the first two tranches, Ministry of Coal has today launched the auction process of 40 new coal mines (21new mines under CM(SP) Act and 19 new mines under the Tranche 3 of MMDR Act). With coal mines rolling over from previous tranche, there shall be a total of 88 coal mines on offer. ...

Methodology for auction of coal and lignite mines/blocks for sale of coal/lignite on revenue sharing basis was issued on 28.05.2020. Twenty coal mines have been successfully auctioned for sale of coal. Further, 67 coal mines have been offered in the current, ongoing tranche of auction for sale of coal. Auction of coal mines for sale of coal would create a market place ...

Sixty seven  coal mines have been offered in the current tranche of auction for sale of coal.Out of these 67 coal mines, 14 coal mines are located in Odisha. List of these 14 coal mines is given below: S. No. Coal Mine 1 Machhakata 2 Mahanadi 3 NuagaonTelisahi 4 Ramchandi Promotion Block 5 Alaknanda 6 Bartap 7 Burapahar 8 Dip ...

In 2020-21, all India coal production was 716.084 Million Tonnes (MT)(provisional). There was a huge coal stock at Coal India Limited (CIL) and Thermal Power Plants end as per details given below:- (in MT) Date CIL Stock Stock at Power House end 01.04.2020 74.89 44.95 01.04.2021 99.12 28.66 28.07.2021 56.03 23.78   The following action has also been taken by ...

*Better quality sand to be offered at almost 10 per cent of market price *Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) takes up the very first initiative * Reduces adverse footprint of river bed mining of sand           Even as the mandate is to produce and despatch coal to its consumers, Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has taken an out of ...

Coal mining operations have some impact on environment in terms of change in land use pattern, dust, air, water and noise pollution. It is mandatory for all projects of CIL to get the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) approved by the competent authority before commencing the mining operations. A detailed Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is carried out for each project considering ...

The auction process of 67 coal mines for sale of coal was launched by the Nominated Authority, Ministry of Coal on March 25, 2021. The last date of submission of Technical Bid was July 08, 2021. As part of the auction process, Technical Bids comprising of online and offline bid documents were opened today i.e. July 09, 2021, 10:00 am ...

In a bid to reduce carbon footprint in its operational area, Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has put special thrust on energy efficiency measures and is forging ahead with a series of measures to offset carbon emission in mining operation in all its coal producing companies. Apart from taking immediate action for efficient use of energy, CIL has also drawn an ...