Coal Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding an illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …

BCCL plea on royalty use

Dhanbad, April 2: Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) has requested the state government to utilise the extra money it has paid as royalty cess for 2009- 10 fiscal to execute the Rs 7,028-crore master plan to rehabilitate the victims of a raging underground fire in Jharia. Chairman-cum-managing director of Bharat …

Scanner on coal firm

Ranchi, March 23: A coal mining company that supplies the precious mineral from Pakur to Punjab for production of electricity invited the wrath of both the Opposition and the treasury bench today for allegedly violating pollution and transport norms. Legislators cutting across party lines created an uproar over the issue …

Few takers for Coal India's thermal coal import plan

DVC places order; negotiations with NTPC not successful. Coal import has become critical for the power sector due to the widening demand supply gap in thermal coal. Coal India Ltd's plan to enter into thermal coal import business is yet to find many takers in the power sector. According to …

Questions over teens death in BCCL mine pit

Dhanbad, March 14: Days after 17-year-old Pankaj Goswami fell into a closed pit of BCCL

WCL's Rs 1,800-cr plans may run into R&R rough weather

Virendra Pandit The Rs 1,800-crore expansion plans of Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), a subsidiary of the world's largest coal-producer Coal India Ltd (CIL), are likely to run into rough weather due to the existing resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R;) policy, according to Mr D.C. Garg, Chairman and Managing Director. WCL, which …

People power to save Jharia

Dhanbad, Feb. 8: Residents, chambers of commerce and lawyers of Jharia are coming together to save the coal mining town plagued by a raging underground fire, fed up of the short-sightedness of coal companies to the continuing threat of illegal as well indiscriminate mining. As a first step, representatives of …

New environment

Gireesh Chandra Prasad Identify problems for climate funding, India urged New Delhi: Companies that get licenses to find and produce coal-bed-methane (CBM), a clean fuel, later this month will have to adhere to a new environment clearance regime instead of what the petroleum ministry had originally said in a model …

BCCL for better target

Dhanbad: Officers of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) have joined hands with the company management to motivate workers to help boost production to meet the 28.5-million tonne target and help the firm earn a mini ratna status this fiscal. A motivational programme has been launched at different BCCL collieries. It

Coal sector sets task for CM

The coal industry has set a task for its former mentor, chief minister Shibu Soren. It has urged the new government to start laying of tracks in North Karnpura coalfields within five years.

HC notices to Centre, State on residents eviction from mining areas

After hearing a PIL filed by people of Bhuli in Dhanbad, who are facing eviction, the Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday told the Centre and State Government to issue proper instruction in the matter. Petitioner Sushil Kumar Singh has alleged that Bharat Coking Coal Limited is forcefully and illegally evicting …

From mines to picnic spots - forest department to develop abandoned collieries

How about giving the usual picnic spots a miss and spending the day in an abandoned mine instead? Sounds unreal? Not any longer. The district administration and the forest department are working in tandem to develop collieries and convert them into tourist hotspots. The purpose is to promote coal tourism …

Power, steel ministries pull up CIL for supplying oversized coal

State-run Coal India Limited (CIL) is under fire from the power and steel ministries for failing to deliver proper washed coal resulting in severe loss in power generation. In a recent meeting to review the coal supply position, the navratna company drew criticism, particularly from the power ministry, for supplying …

Lock looms on coal mountain

The Bengal government has taken the first tangible step to facilitate an airport project which could bury forever coal sufficient to meet the country

Govt to soon de-allocate 40 coal blocks from idling companies, forfeit their bank guarantees

Upset with companies idling on their captive coal blocks, the coal ministry is likely to soon begin the process of de-allocating nearly 40 blocks from them and also forfeit their bank guarantees. If the ministry has its way, about 25 public sector undertakings and 15 private companies may have to …

Small coal blocks for local industry

SMALL and isolated patches of coal reserves will now be offered to fuel starved local industries such as small power plants, cement and steel units, and brick making facilities without going through the lengthy allocation process. The government is finalising new policy guidelines for `allocation of isolated small pockets of …

Hike in coal prices sought

NEW DELHI: Faced with massive investment target in various projects and the need to adjust prices, Minister of State for Coal Sriprakash Jaiswal on Monday said that he would approach the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeking his nod for a marginal hike in coal prices to protect the interests of …

Coal India may get 130 blocks to meet its production target

In a major shift from its policy to equip the state-run and private power utilities with captive coal blocks to meet their production needs, the Coal Ministry is now actively considering allocating nearly 130 blocks to its behemoth Coal India Limited (CIL). It believes that if the blocks are not …

CCL starts model village project

Residents of Semartoli and Lupungtoli can now hope to light up their homes and have easy access to precious drops of water. The Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), which adopted the two hamlets tucked away in the Maoist pockets of Ranchi district, today begun work to turn them into model villages. …

Jharia fire zone rehabilitation gets 100-day road map

Jharkhand has finally decided to act on rehabilitating thousands of residents of Jharia, where an underground fire has been raging since three decades, announcing today that 4,650 families will be shifted within the next 100 days. The decision, taken at a high-level meeting here at the Central Institute of Mining …

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