NTPC ltd has commenced the process of developing necessary Railway infrastructure at the Talaipalli mines section in Raigarh district for coal transportation to its upcoming Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) at lara in the district, officials stated.
A number of bridges and Path Way are to come up as part of the construction of Railway infrastructure of the Tallaipali Mines Section .
Notably, on February 8 this year, an inter-departmental committee chaired by State Revenue Minister Prem Prakash Pandey had sanctioned 20 acres of land for the under-construction Rail route from Talaipalli to lara village for the NTPC's upcoming lara STPP.
The Chhattisgarh government will allocate 66 acres of land for speedy implementation of two key railway corridor projects in the State.
For the East Corridor, the State government has decided to allocate 14 acres of land in Raigarh district.
The Corridor will be about 180 km long from Bhupdevpur-Gharghoda-Dharamjaygarh up to Korba, the official said.
Notably, the Centre has signed a Memorandum of Understanding each with the states of Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh for critical coal connectivity projects to improve transportation of coal, officials informed.
Coal production in Chhattisgarh stood at 115.19 million tonnes (MT) during 2014-15 ( provisional), officials stated.
This was in comparison to 110.14 million tonnes (actual) coal produced in the State during the previous year.
The State had already produced 27.857 million tonnes of coal during the period April to June 2015 (provisional), officials stated.
As per Annual Plan document 2015-16 of Union Ministry of Coal, the annual target for overall coal production for 2015-16 has been fixed at 700 million tonnes.
As action plan has also been drawn by Coal India ltd. in this regard to achieve production of 1000 Million tonnes by 2019-20, officials stated.
Agreement for World Bank loan of US $ 1100 million for Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) (Phase-2) have also been signed, officials stated.