Union Minister of Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy (Independent charge), Piyush Goyal has inaugurated CCl’s 12 million yearly capacity Amrapali opencast project on-line from Delhi on Friday.
While addressing the inaugural session Goyal praised CCl’s performance and said that CCl was doing splendid work in all its operations. “The commitment of Government to move forward is seen, yesterday the general budget was tabled and today I am inaugurating CCl’s Amprapali opencast project, which will prove to be a milestone in the field of coal production,” he said.
Goyal said that if the production of coal would increase, commitment for providing 24 hour power supply would be fulfilled. He also hoped for quick completion of Tori-Shivpur railway line for felicitating coal dispatch.
Goyal urged the Members of Parliament of Jharkhand to take up the matter of land authentication. “I will also take up the matter with the State Government if, needed,” he said.
The Minister directed CCl management for early and genuine compensation for land besides, providing better facilities for drinking water, education, health and other welfare amenities to villagers of its command areas. Member of Parliament, Chatra, Sunil Kumar Singh said, “We are ready to take all initiative for providing land to CCl for coal projects and medical college”.
Members of Parliament from Jharkhand Sudarshan Bhagat, PN Singh, Ravindra Kumar Pandey, Nishikant Dubey, BD Ram, Vidyut Varan Mahto, Jayant Sinha, Vijay Hansda, Sunil Kumar Singh, Dhiraj Sahu, Sanjeev Kumar, Secretary Coal SK Shrivastava, Chairman, Coal India Dr AK Dubey and CCl CMD, Gopal Singh and other dignitaries were present during the occasion.
While welcoming all Gopal Singh, CMD, CCl said, “Amrapali opencast project is an important & prestigious coal project of CCl through which coal production of CCl will certainly increase enabling to fulfill the requirement of coal to power sector”. Singh praised the cooperation of Jharkhand Govt as well as the villagers of adjacent to Amrpali coal project, especially those villagers who gave their land to CCl.
While giving detailed description of Amrapali opencast mine, Singh said “Amrapali OC is having 291.1 million tonne of coal reserve and life span of this mine is 30 year, Total overburden is 459.68 million cubic metre. Total land requirement is 1426.08 Ha out of which 739.08 Ha is forest land whereas 633 Ha is non forest land, 06 villages to be rehabilitated. Coal dispatch of Amrapali project will be through Tori-Shivpur Railway line. Due to delay in commissioning of Tori-Shivpur-Kathuria Railway line, dispatch through road is being arranged temporarily for which construction of 32 KM Amrapali-Balumath Road has been entrusted to Road Construction Department, Jharkhand. The road will be constructed by State Highway Authority of Jharkhand.”