Enhancement in coal production in next five years as envisaged is
expected to reduce the gap between demand and domestic supply to a large
extent.
Coal India (CIL) have been taken/contemplated several measures for enhancing domestic coal production which are as follows:-
• An exercise has been carried out to prepare a roadmap for achieving the production level of One Billion Tonne coal by the year 2019-20. So far, mine/projects have been identified to produce about 908 Mt.
• Up gradation and modernization of existing technology in phases. Mega opencast projects have been planned with higher size of equipment for excavation, transportation, drilling and other auxiliary operations of international standard.
• Deployment a Continuous miners (CMs) for mass production technology & Long Wall Mining where ever geo mining conditions permits.
• Periodical review at the Ministry level and by an inter ministerial committee set up under the Chairman, Railway Board with secretaries of Coal, Power, and Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) as members to expedite the railway projects aimed at enhancing the evacuation capacities.
Steps are also being taken to improve quality of coal:
i. Selective mining for elimination of bands wherever necessary /feasible.
ii. Appropriate positioning of overburden (OB) and coal benches to avoid contamination.
iii. Scrapping/cleaning of coal benches before blasting.
iv. Installation of metal detectors / magnetic separators over running conveyors before coal loading.
v. Crushing arrangement for supply of sized coal.
vi. All the major projects having high capacity coal handling plants to dispatch sized and uniform quality of coal to suit the requirement of the consumers.
vii. Shale picking, if any, at mine face, stocks, sidings and from the wagons.
viii. Beneficiation of non-coking coal in washeries have been planned on “Build Operate & Maintain” (BOM) basis in addition to the existing capacity of non-coking coal washeries.
Coal India (CIL) have been taken/contemplated several measures for enhancing domestic coal production which are as follows:-
• An exercise has been carried out to prepare a roadmap for achieving the production level of One Billion Tonne coal by the year 2019-20. So far, mine/projects have been identified to produce about 908 Mt.
• Up gradation and modernization of existing technology in phases. Mega opencast projects have been planned with higher size of equipment for excavation, transportation, drilling and other auxiliary operations of international standard.
• Deployment a Continuous miners (CMs) for mass production technology & Long Wall Mining where ever geo mining conditions permits.
• Periodical review at the Ministry level and by an inter ministerial committee set up under the Chairman, Railway Board with secretaries of Coal, Power, and Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) as members to expedite the railway projects aimed at enhancing the evacuation capacities.
Steps are also being taken to improve quality of coal:
i. Selective mining for elimination of bands wherever necessary /feasible.
ii. Appropriate positioning of overburden (OB) and coal benches to avoid contamination.
iii. Scrapping/cleaning of coal benches before blasting.
iv. Installation of metal detectors / magnetic separators over running conveyors before coal loading.
v. Crushing arrangement for supply of sized coal.
vi. All the major projects having high capacity coal handling plants to dispatch sized and uniform quality of coal to suit the requirement of the consumers.
vii. Shale picking, if any, at mine face, stocks, sidings and from the wagons.
viii. Beneficiation of non-coking coal in washeries have been planned on “Build Operate & Maintain” (BOM) basis in addition to the existing capacity of non-coking coal washeries.
