SCCL expedites efforts to scale up extraction

Plans to produce 270 lakh tonnes of coal across all its mines by end of financial year

With just less than four months left in the current fiscal, the government-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has expedited efforts to maximise the use of equipment for scaling up overburden removal and coal extraction, thereby achieving the overall annual coal output target of 680 lakh (68 million) tonnes by March 31, 2022.

The State-owned coal mining giant has set in motion an ambitious plan to produce 270 lakh tonnes of coal across all its mines in the remaining period of the present financial year to reach the set annual output target.

The plan envisages increasing the daily coal production to 2.15 lakh tonnes across all the coal mines located in 11 areas of the company with paramount focus on quality of coal and safety of the workforce, SCCL sources said.