Category: Coal

Nearly 1,000 tribal people held a meeting on Saturday evening and vowed to stop government officials from “digging an inch” of soil for the Deocha-Pachami coal mine before their demands for proper compensation and jobs were met. The meeting was held under the aegis of the Birbhum Adivasi Gaonta at Sagarbandhi near Mohammedbazar. Sagarbandhi falls […]

Coal India plans to tap consumers who are importing coal through a separate e-auction in a bid to push its offtake and cut down on the import of the fuel. Coal imports comprising coking coal and non-coking coal stood at 248.55 million tonnes in 2019-20 and are on an uptrend since 2017-18, according to government […]

Non-BJP parties on Tuesday decided to stage a statewide dharna in Jharkhand on July 23 to protest against the Centre’s recent decisions like opening up the coal sector to private players, which they felt will affect workers and common people. Senior leaders of eight parties, including the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress, Rashtriya Janata […]

Output at Coal India fell more than 50 per cent during the three-day strike from July 2 to July 4, based on data released by the PSU. The public sector miner in a statement said that despite the strike, it had managed 44 per cent of coal output compared with the average of 10 days […]

Coal industry unions on Thursday started a three-day strike to protest the government’s decision to allow commercial coal mining. Spread across all the subsidiaries of the public sector miner, the strike is estimated to have hit production by around 2 million tonnes in Coal India and about 1.6 lakh tonnes in SCCL. All five trade […]

Coal production was significantly affected in over 45 active underground and open-cast mines of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), both subsidiaries of Coal India, as departmental production through regular employees came to a halt during the first shift. Production through contractual workers of private outsourcing companies like Oriental Structural Engineers […]

Coal India has expanded its investment plan for mechanised transport and loading of coal under the first-mile connectivity initiative (FMC). Four Coal India subsidiaries – Central Coalfields Limited, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, Eastern Coalfields Limited and South Eastern Coalfields Limited – will invest around Rs 3,400 crore in 14 identified projects with a capacity of 100.5 […]

Afive-member panel has opposed the proposal of separating Central Mines Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDIL) from Coal India, saying that the move could not be helpful for the miner which is pursuing a target of producing one billion tonne of the dry fuel by 2023-24, sources said on Sunday. The committee was formed by […]

Subdued demand from the power sector along with lower realisation per tonne from sales impacted the bottomline of Coal India for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2020. The miner has reported a 23 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit at Rs 4,625.16 crore against Rs 6,026.47 crore in the corresponding quarter of […]

Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, registering her protest against the Centre’s policy to allow 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the coal mining sector. In her letter, the Bengal chief minister said the decision would neither bring FDI nor new technologies to the country and requested Modi to […]

Underground colliery operation at Jamadoba under Tata Steel’s Jharia division in Dhanbad, around 145km northeast of Jharkhand capital Ranchi, has been closed for sanitisation after a middle-aged senior officer tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night at Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur. Sources in the Jamadoba collieries said the 47-year–old officer had no travel history […]

The ruling JMM and the Opposition BJP seem to be warming up for the byelection to the Dumka Assembly seat, given their escalated war of words over auctioning of coal blocks for commercial mining. However, the bypoll date is yet to be announced. Chief minister Hemant Soren, who had won two Assembly seats, retained Barhait […]