Coal India plans to use private sector mine developer and operators (MDOs) to scale up production. The public sector miner on Wednesday said it has issued letters of acceptance for seven coal projects to be pursued through MDOs with a cumulative capacity of 100 million tonnes per year.
Of the seven projects, three belong to Central Coalfields, two to Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL) and one each to South Eastern Coalfields and Eastern Coalfields (ECL).
Two of the projects — the Siarmal open-cast project of MCL in Odisha and the Hura ‘C’ open-cast project of ECL in Bengal — are expected to start mining operations during this financial year. The coal miner is tracking a total of 15 greenfield coal projects to mine through MDOs.
