Step up coal production to plug loss due to heavy rains: Singareni CMD

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Singareni Collieries CMD N. Balram holding a gathering  with Area General Managers of the institution  successful  Hyderabad connected  Thursday.

Singareni Collieries CMD N. Balram holding a gathering with Area General Managers of the institution successful Hyderabad connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement

HYDERABAD

The absorption of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has asked the workers of the institution to measurement up ember accumulation and dispatches successful November to execute 72 lakh tonnes (7.2 cardinal tonnes) of ember accumulation to plug the nonaccomplishment successful accumulation owed to dense rains.

In a gathering with each the Area General Managers of the institution present connected Thursday, Chairman and Managing Director of SCCL N. Balram said an mean of 2.4 lakh tonnes of ember accumulation was needed each time this period to execute the people of 72 lakh tonnes. For that, the removal of 13.75 lakh cubic meters of overburden was besides required each day.

Mr. Balram stated that dense rains passim the monsoon play had affected the ember accumulation severely successful the archetypal fractional of the fiscal twelvemonth and stepped up accumulation and dispatches of ember from present connected would lone assistance the institution execute the people of 72 cardinal tonnes of ember accumulation this twelvemonth (2025-26).

According to the institution authorities, the institution could execute 32.63 cardinal tonnes of ember accumulation successful the archetypal 7 months of the existent fiscal against 33.84 cardinal tonnes achieved during the corresponding play past year. Similarly, the ember dispatches successful the archetypal 7 months this twelvemonth were 33.37 cardinal tonnes against 34.71 cardinal tonnes during the archetypal 7 months of the past fiscal.

On taking up ember accumulation successful caller mines, the CMD stated that each clearances were secured for the Kothagudem V.K. unfastened formed excavation and astatine slightest six lakh tonnes of ember accumulation was being expected from it by March-end. He instructed the authorities acrophobic to absorption connected securing clearances of different mines arsenic the absorption was readying to commence accumulation successful astatine slightest 4 mines this year.

Published - November 06, 2025 09:00 p.m. IST

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