The Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) on Tuesday recorded the highest single-day production of the current financial year by mining 7.27 lakh tonnes of coal.
The MCL’s consolidated production figure of 7,27,429 tonnes recorded for March 11, 2019 spread as a motivating spirit among the miners across all its units in Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Angul and Sambalpur. Continuing with the highest-ever monthly average of production at 5.78 lakh tonnes in March 2019, highest among the coal-producing companies in the country, the MCL is poised to script a new history at the end of financial year 2018-19.