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BLING COAL INDIA TO MEET ITS TARGETS

India has a long history of commercial coal mining spanning manufacturers of mining equipment including HEC, actively
almost 242 years starting 1774 when East India Company began participated in the workshop and their deliverables was well
work in the Raniganj coalfields along the Damodar river. CIL received and reciprocated by CIL.
as an organized state owned coal mining corporate came into
existence in November 1975.It has now set a target of boosting Coal India Limited (CIL), the Coal Mining Maharatna PSU signed
annual coal production to the securing the energy needs of the a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its Administrative
country, level of 1 billion tonnes by 2019-20.To meet the growing Ministry – Ministry of Coal – for its key performance areas for
demand of fuel and meet the targets diligently,CIL organized a the fiscal 2014-15. Shri S K Srivastava, Secretary to Government
workshop on “the technology development & mechanization of of India, Ministry of Coal and Shri S Narsing Rao, Chairman, CIL
mining for enhancing coal production & productivity”, through the signed the document in New Delhi on 25th March 2014.
Indian National Committee of the World Mining Congress (South
East Asia Centre) at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 20th Jan., As per the MoU for the fiscal 2014-15, MoC has fixed Coal
2015. Production and Off-take targets of 507 Mt and 520 Mt respectively
against last year’s Coal Production and Off-take targets of 482 Mt
Shri Avijit Ghosh, CMD, HEC Ltd., was one of the key resource 492 Mt respectively. The Off-take in the current fiscal till 24th
persons during the workshop. His presentation on “MISSION March 2014 is 460.48 Mt which has increased by about 4.77
ONE BILLION TONS”, focused on HEC’s participation and Mt over last year same period where as the total increase in coal
contributions in term of its capacity & capability towards supply production in last year is about 8.28 Mt. The projected growth rate
of mining equipments to CIL units. He highlighted the efforts of for achieving Coal Production and Off-take for 2014-15 are about
the Corporation to manufacture high capacity equipments for coal 9.7.% & 10.4.% against anticipated achievement of production &
mining enabling CIL to achieve its productivity improvement. HEC off-take of 13-14 respectively.
also highlighted its capability to execute turn-key projects for Coal
Handling Plant (CHP) and Coal Washeries. In the past, HEC has Under the present MoU 2014-15 Project Management &
executed CHP of upto 10 MTPA capacity. Another segment of Implementation, Technology, Quality and Customer Satisfaction,
material handling equipment, supplied by HEC also caught the Initiatives of Growth have been identified as major thrust areas. To
eyes of the people present. HEC also presented its future plans for attain the targeted Off-take for CIL, CIL has projected requirement
inclusion of more products like hydraulic excavators, dozers etc. of about 221 railway rakes per day on an annual average basis
to enable CIL to achieve its targets. for 2014-15 as against the average availability of about 184 and
190 rakes/day in 2012-13 and 2013-14 respectively. Average
The workshop was attended by CEO's of all subsidiaries of Coal growth in rake movement has been around 4. % during the last
India Limited who presented their future requirement. The leading four years. In the present MoU, a growth of more than 16 % has
been envisaged for rail movement.

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