State-owned NTPC’s net profit inched up by 1% year-on-year (y-o-y) to Rs 2,385.4 crore in the three months ended December 2018 as country’s largest power generator showed signs of recovering from chronic coal supply woes plaguing the company since the beginning of 2017.
Category: Coal
Meghalaya’s mining quandary: No rat-hole mine is environmentally sound and safe, ban it forever
Anyone who has seen a rat-hole coal mine up-close would have known that the chances of survival of the 15 miners trapped in a mine at Ksan in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills was slim once the mine was flooded. I have been inside one of these mines and can tell you that it is beyond […]
Coal India’s supply to power sector up 8% at 360 million tonne in April-December 2018
State-owned Coal India supplied 360 million tonne (MT) coal to the power sector during April-December 2018, an increase of 7.9 cent over the year-ago period, according to official data. Coal India Ltd (CIL) had dispatched 333.4 MT of dry fuel during the corresponding nine months of 2017. The PSU giant’s coal supply in December 2018 […]