The Khairaha Underground Mine South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) of Sohagpur area has been accorded sanction for enhancement of coal production capacity from 0.585 MTPA to 0.819 MTPA by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), a company press release informed on Saturday.
The increased capacity will contribute to the coal production targets of SECL, it stated.
It would be pertinent to mention that in the month of October 2018, Kahiraha UG mine had produced 75175 tonnes of Coal through Continuous Miner. This is the largest coal ever produced by any Continuous Miner in a single month in India. It is such efforts that have made SECL the largest coal producing subsidiary of Coal India Limited, the press release stated.
