Coal India plans for mechanised transport and loading gain steam
Coal India’s (CIL) pitch for efficient and environment friendly mechanized coal transportation in its First Mile Connectivity, replacing the road movement, gained pace with the company successfully issuing tenders for all the 35 projects, of Phase-1, by September’20 as planned. First mile connectivity refers to transportation of coal from CIL’s pitheads to dispatch points.
Coal Handling Plants (CHPs) and Silos for rapid loading system would be commissioned across six of CIL’s subsidiaries, under the tenders.
To come up by FY’24 at an estimated investment of Rs. 12,500 Croresthe coal handling capacity of the 35 projects will be 406 Million Tonnes per year (MT/Y). Each of these mining projects has production capacity of 4 MT/Y and above. The expenditure would be met out of CIL’s Capex.
