The Coal Ministry has made an annual plan for total coal production of the country in FY17 and total production is fixed at 724.71 MnT for the fiscal. This was stated by the Union Minister of State (IC) For Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal, in a written reply, in Lok Sabha yesterday.
Coal India (CIL), the largest coal producer in the country has also taken a step ahead to ramp up the domestic production of coal through latest available technologies such as Continuous Miners, Selective Mining, Surface Miners and clean Coal Technologies, Coal sizing and sampling technologies.
CIL with its all subsidiaries has enhanced its target to 1 BnT by FY20, which stood at 538.75 MnT in FY16.
The Government is planning to increase the domestic production of coal which includes efforts to expedite Environment clearances & Forest clearances, land acquisition and coordinated effort with Railways for movement of coal. This includes capacity addition from new projects, use of mass production technologies and identification of existing on-going projects with growth potential.
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