The National Buildings Construction Corporation ltd (NBCC) will soon start the process of constructing a liaison Office of South Eastern Coalfields ltd (SEC) at Sector-24 in the new Capital.
The Soil Investigation and Digital Survey work for construction of the building will be taken up shortly, officials informed.
Notably, Coal India ltd (CIl) has recorded offtake of coal from its largest subsidiary South Eastern Coalfields ltd (SECl) at 124.34 million tonnes between April 2015 to February 2016.
This was against the target of 123.89 million tonnes (MT) — 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.
SECl recorded coal production (provisional) of 12.10 million tonnes (MT) against target of 11.70 MT as on February 2016, Coal India ltd (CIl) informed the Bombay Stock Exchange in its filing.
The total value of mineral production (excluding atomic & minor minerals) in the country during December 2015 was ` 20096 crore. The contribution of Coal was the highest at ` 9132 crore (43%), the Central government has informed.
Next in the order of importance were: Petroleum (crude) ` 5598 crore, Natural gas (utilized) ` 2187 crore, Iron ore Rs. 1604 crore, limestone ` 479 crore and lignite ` 356 crore. These six minerals together contributed about 96% of the total value of mineral production in December 2015.
SECl would go for extended use of multi-utility vehicles for transport of materials by phasing out existing labour oriented haulages during the next five years from its underground mines.
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 by Coal India ltd, officials stated.
By signing of the MoU, the Railways and Coal India ltd will be entering into a strategic partnership which would ensure adequate wagon availability for meeting the transportation needs of coal produced by Coal India ltd.
Notably, 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.