NCL eyes coal production of 115MT by FY’24, focus on offtake by railways
The Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) on Friday projected a production target of 115 million tonnes by 2023-24, while planning to focus on offtake by railways, instead of roads, to meet environmental obligations.
The CIL subsidiary with the highest growth of 9 per cent transports 17 million tonnes of coal per annum by trucks.
“We will do away with road movement of coal to meet the green regulations toward sustainability. We are looking at 106 million tonnes of coal production for FY’21 and 115 million tonnes for 2023-24, as per the current projections,” NCL chairman and managing director P K Sinha said.
He was speaking on the sidelines of the 2nd International Conference on Opencast Mining Technology and Sustainability (ICOMS-2019) in association with IIT (BHU), Varanasi, organised on the eve of the World Energy Conservation Day on December 14.
