The South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) became the first company in India to cross coal production of 150 million tonnes in a financial year.
It attained the feat during the financial year 2018-19, a SECL press release said.
While achieving the annual coal production record, the company created several new records on day-to-day basis under the leadership of its CMD A P Panda, the press release said.
On March 10, the SECL created a record of highest single day coal production by mining 6,30,000 tonnes of the combustible hard rock . Two days later, it broke its own record by producing 6,37,000 tonnes of coal in a single day.
