As over 285 coal based thermal power plants are facing coal shortage, the Jharkhand based subsidiaries of Coal India Limited (CIL), including Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) have ramped up both production and dispatch of coal to meet the increased demand of coal of these power plants.
Special efforts are being put up to increase the production at CCL having altogether 62 operational mines, including 22 underground and 40 open cast mines situated over Bokaro, West Bokaro, Ramgarh, North Karanpura, South Karanpura, Girdih and Hutar (Palamau).
Talking to The Telegraph Online, PM Prasad, Chairman Cum Managing Director of CCL, said, “We have increased the coal production to 2 lakh tons per day since the last seven days from the previous production of around 1.7 lakh tons per day We have a target to further increase the coal production to 2.2 lakh tons per day which we will achieve within a couple of days by increasing the production in such mines which have greater scope for production.”
