NEW DELHI: Within days of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing Rs 50,000 crore investment in coal infrastructure as part of an economic stimulus, Central Coalfields Ltd has become the first miner to bid out projects worth Rs 1,200 crore for automation of coal handling operations in four of its largest mines.
\nThe projects will cover some 55 million tonne of coal produced from Amrapali, Uri-Mari, Magadh and Piparwar\/Ashoka mines in Jharkhand. Automation of moving coal from mines to railway siding and loading of rakes will result in environmental benefits by stopping air and land pollution from coal dust generated during transportation by trucks.
\nThe projects envisage setting up conveyor belts for transporting coal from mines to railway sidings and coal-handling plants for loading wagons. The projects will take 30 months to complete. Automation of \u2018first-mile\u2019 connectivity and loading was part of the NDA-2 government\u2019s 100-day programme.
\nSource said a comprehensive list of Coal India Ltd\u2019s projects for coal transportation and handling is being prepared and an announcement is expected in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Within days of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing Rs 50,000 crore investment in coal infrastructure as part of an economic stimulus, Central Coalfields Ltd has become the first miner to bid out projects worth Rs 1,200 crore for automation of coal handling operations in four of its largest mines. The projects will cover some 55 million tonne of coal produced from Amrapali, Uri-Mari, Magadh and Piparwar\/Ashoka mines in Jharkhand. Automation of moving coal from mines to railway siding and loading of rakes will result in environmental benefits by stopping air and land pollution from coal dust generated during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}