Setting a new record, the Talcher coalfields in Angul district would contribute a record 100 million tonnes (MT) to the targeted 162.5-MT production of the dry fuel by the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) during the current financial year 2018-19.
This was stated by MCL CMD Rajiv Ranjan Mishra after a meeting with the Area General Managers and Project Officers. The Talcher coalfields, he said, would grow at a rate of 50 MT in every five years. “This year it will be a record 100 MT; and after five years, the production will be 150 MT as the Talcher coalfields is poised to add to its total production 50 MT every five year,” he said.
The CMD was accompanied by JP Singh, Director (Technical/Operations), LN Mishra, Director (Personnel), OP Singh, Director (Technical/Projects & Planning) and RK Sinha, Joint Secretary (Independent Director) during his visits to the mines.
The Talcher coalfields had contributed over 81 MT to the total 143 MT of coal produced by the company during 2017-18. The CMD also interacted with locals, who assured him all cooperation to the company.
Creating a new chapter in the company’s history, Mishra chaired his first meeting of the MCL’s Board of Directors at an area office in the Talcher coalfields.