SCCL plans to scale up production to achieve 2021-22 targets

In the first nine months of 2021-22, the company had achieved 42% growth in coal production

Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has plans to extract 2.2 lakh tonnes of coal and remove 14.8 lakh cubic metres of overburden every day in the remaining period of the current fiscal to achieve the production target of 68 million tonnes of coal.

Chairman and Managing Director of the company N. Sridhar held a monthly production review meeting with Directors, Advisors and Area General Managers here on Monday to chalk out the strategy to achieve the production target for the current year. He complimented the company workers and officials for registering a good progress in the first three quarters of 2021-22 compared to the previous year.

In the first nine months of 2021-22, the company had achieved 42% growth in coal production, 52% increase in coal dispatches and 23% progress in the overburden removal compared to the previous year, the CMD said at the meeting. He instructed the authorities to meet the required targets of production and dispatch in the remaining three months of the financial year.