The South Eastern Coalfields ltd (SECl) has approved Rs 11.24 crores for building a total of four student hostels at Bijapur and Bhairamgarh in Chhattisgarh.
Two hostels each will be built at Bijapur and Bhairamgarh, officials informed.
Notably, Coal India ltd (CIl) recorded offtake of 10.13 million tonnes (MT) of coal from its flagship subsidiary Bilaspur-headquartered South Eastern Coalfields ltd (SECl) against the target of 10.60 MT during September this year.
The offtake of coal by Coal India ltd from SECl had seen 15.8 per cent jump (provisional) at 60.99 million tonnes (MT) during April-August 2017, officials informed.
The coal offtake target during the period was 58.79 MT.
SECl achieved total production of 28.178 million tonnes (MT) of coal from its open cast (OC) mines during April-June period of the current financial year.
SECl also excavated 125.45 million tonnes (MT) of coal from its mines during the last five year period (2012-13 to 2016-17) from its Open Cast mines, the latest SECl data has revealed.
Notably, CIl had recorded offtake of coal from its largest subsidiary SECl at 124.34 million tonnes between April 2015 to February 2016.
This was against the target of 123.89 million tonnes (MT) which was a growth of 11.1 per cent.
Notably, SECl is targetting total coal production of 250 million tonnes (MT) from its underground and open cast mines by 2019-20, officials stated.
The company recorded coal production (provisional) of 12.10 million tonnes (MT) against target of 11.70 MT as on February 2016, Coal India ltd had informed the Bombay Stock Exchange in its filing earlier.
Notably, the Coal India ltd is targetting production of 1 billion tonnes of coal by 2020. Wagon availability will be a key factor for achieving this target , officials stated.
The Central Government has also 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.
The company has recorded coal production of 83.77 millions tonnes (MT) against a target of 90.37 (MT) between April to November 2016, they informed.
It has also commenced the process for setting up the 5.0 MTPA Baroud Coal Washery in Raigarh district of the State, officials informed.
The Washery will be set up on Build-Operate-Maintain (BOM) basis.
It may be recalled that SECl will provide the capital funding for setting up of the Washery and also other infrastructural facilities like land, water, power etc.
Notably, the Central Government decided to transport coal above G10 level only after being washed from October 1, 2017. The decision is taken to tackle the quality issue of the coal produced.
In order to meet the rising demand, Coal India ltd has been setting up 15 new washeries with a total capacity of 112.6 million tonnes per annum. Out of these washeries, six are Coking Coal washeries with total capacity of 18.6 million tonnes per annum and nine Non-Coking washeries of 94.0 million tonnes per annum. Apart from these, 3 washeries of 11.6 million tonnes per annum are under construction, officials stated.