Kolkata: Coal India (CIL) has finally signed a major procurement pact worth Rs 2,900 crore, for purchase of 96 dumpers of 240 tonne capacity each with Belaz, the Belarus-based mining equipment manufacturer. Earlier, in August 2020, CIL\u2019s board has given its nod for their procurement.
\nA CIL official said that these dumpers are of the highest capacity and currently operational in the country which play a critical role in opencast mines.
\nThe entire Rs.2,900 crore investment would be funded through CIL\u2019s own finances and includes the cost of equipment along with the spares and consumables for eight years.
\n\u201cFor CIL, whose 95% of the entire coal output is through opencast mines dumpers of such high capacity are pivotal in ferrying over burden (OB) from mine working face to dump yard. OB is the extraneous material that overlays the coal seam, removal of which makes the dry fuel\u2019s production easier,\u201d the official added.
\nThe batch of 96 dumpers would be deployed in two of the large opencast mines of South Eastern Coalfields (SECL), the highest coal-producing subsidiary of CIL, namely Gevra and Kusmunda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: Coal India (CIL) has finally signed a major procurement pact worth Rs 2,900 crore, for purchase of 96 dumpers of 240 tonne capacity each with Belaz, the Belarus-based mining equipment manufacturer. Earlier, in August 2020, CIL\u2019s board has given its nod for their procurement. A CIL official said that these dumpers are of the highest capacity and currently operational in the country which play a critical role in opencast mines. The entire Rs.2,900 crore investment would be funded through CIL\u2019s own finances and includes the cost of equipment along with the spares and consumables for eight years. \u201cFor CIL, […]<\/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-398997","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\/398997","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=398997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}