KOLKATA, Mar 29: The South Eastern Coalfields Ltd
(SECL) has become the first company in the country to have
crossed coal production figure of 150 million tonnes in a
financial year.
The SECL achieved the record during the 2018-19 fiscal
and crossed the 150 million tonnes mark on March 20, a company
official said.
“In the wake of rising demand from the power sector,
the SECL is striving hard to extract coal in full throttle. We
have crossed 150 million tonnes on March 20 and are already at
153 million tonnes,” SECL chief manager(P&A) P Narendra Kumar
told PTI.
SECL chairman and managing director A P Panda has
taken all steps to expedite coal production as a result of
which the SECL also touched the highest ever single day
production of 7.44 lakh tonnes in this month, Kumar said.
During FY 2017-18, the SECL had produced 144.7 million
tonnes of coal.
SECL, the largest subsidiary of Coal India Ltd (CIL),
contributes about a quarter of the dry fuel production for the
holding company.
The SECL has fared well at area level too.
Dipka mine Area achieved the highest ever single day
coal production of 1.45 lakh tonnes, while SECLs Gevra Mine
achieved a single day coal production of 2.05 lakh tonnes in
this month. (PTI)
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