South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), the largest coal producing subsidiary of CIL, has managed to achieve a new milestone for FY20 having been on a production spree recently.
The company has attained 560,301 MT coal output on 30 Jan’20, thus marking its highest coal production in a single day for FY20. Apparently, its previous best output figures for the current fiscal also came few days ago when it had managed 550,029 MT coal production on 27 Jan’20.
Recovering from the set-back occurred in Sep’19, wherein its production schedule was drastically hampered by monsoons. SECL has taken immediate measures to elevate the production levels to meet the deficit.
In line with the recent developments, the company reported on 23 Jan’20 that it had crossed 500,000 MT single day coal production for 11 successive days.
Latest environmental nod is expected to boost SECL’s aim of replicating the performance seen in FY19, when it became the first coal company in the country to attain 150 MnT coal output in a fiscal year.
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, MoEFCC has increased the normative coal production capacity of SECL’s Kusmunda UG mines to 50 MnTPA, while its peak capacity has been augmented to 62.5 MnTPA.
Incidentally, it was the third time that environment clearance for the coal mine has been raised. Previously during FY19, the production limit was first elevated from 26 MnTPA to 36 MnTPA by MoU, which was then further increased to 40 MnTPA.
Similarly, environment clearance of Khairaha mine under Sohagpur area having production capacity of 0.819 MnTPA, has been increased for further 30 years.
The environmental grant is likely to speed-up SECL’s mining activities and help it to achieve the expected production target of 170 MnT for FY20.
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