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 …

CMPDIL, MECL to team up for coal exploration

CENTRAL Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDIL) plans to join hands with Mineral Exploration Corp (MECL) to fast-track the process of coal exploration in the country. The tie-up will help CMPDIL to involve MECL in undertaking its drilling works without inviting tenders. CMPDIL, the exploration subsidiary of the country

CCL project hits hurdle

The two-decade-old land controversy involving a project of the Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) in Giridih has reared its head again. Seventy families, who had given their land before 1980, have launched a fresh agitation against the company in demand for a better compensation package. They began a blockade at Kabribad

Clearing house for eco-friendly fuel - CMPDIL bid to rope in foreign funds

In order to boost production of clean energy source the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), would inaugurate on Monday a clearing house in the city. The new unit would enable those interested in extraction of methane from the coal mines …

Buddha urges Centre to allocate more coal blocks

Chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today urged coal producers to ensure more effective ways of extracting coal from underground mines while he urged the Centre to allocate more coal blocks to meet demands of upcoming industries. Speaking at the inauguration of the International Mining and Machinery Exhibition (IMME), Mr Bhattacharjee …

Jharia burns in anger

Dhanbad: The public investment bureau (PIB) has shown the green light to a Rs 6,997-crore Jharia rehabilitation package and it is just a matter of time before the Union Cabinet puts its stamp of approval. But the million dollar question is who will convince some 400,000 residents to evacuate the …

How rat hole mining kills, bleeds state

ARUN KUMAR THAKUR Ranchi, Sept. 10: Illegal mining is a symbol of hunger

Hundreds flee mine fire - BCCL says itll take days to douse

SHASHANK SHEKHAR Rescue team members and BCCL officials outside the Godhar mines near Dhanbad on Monday. Picture by Gautam Dey Dhanbad, Sept. 8: A fire broke out late last evening at Kusunda colliery, about 9km from Dhanbad, forcing 400 families to be evacuated from near the open-cast mine belonging to …

Minister push for more coal yield

ARUN KUMAR THAKUR Union minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia (centre) at a news meet in Ranchi on Sunday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Aug. 31: The Union minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia today remained non-committal on a deadline for wage revision of coal executives and employees.

NCDEX to launch coal futures in Sept

Newswire18 / Kochi August 25, 2008, 3:59 IST The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) is planning to launch futures trading in thermal coal by September 10, the exchange's Chief Business Officer Unopam Kausik said on Saturday. Initially, the exchange plans to introduce a contract lot size of 100 tonnes …

Coal ministry says no shortage

Yet power sector does not have prescribed coal stock: Junior coal minister New Delhi, August 12: Maintaining that public sector behemoth Coal India Limited (CIL) has been supplying coal adequately to state-run thermal power units and the power sector crying foul on coal shortage was uncalled for, the coal ministry …

Impacts of underground coal mining on natural features in the Southern coalfield: strategic review

On 6 December 2006, the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Mineral Resources and Primary Industries established an Independent Expert Panel to undertake an inquiry into the impacts of underground coal mining on natural features in the Southern Coalfield. The inquiry

Mitigating social and environmental impacts of coal mining in India

Coal is the only natural resource and fossil fuel available in abundance in India. The major environmental challenges encountering the coal industry are impacts of mine fires, dust suppression and control particularly haul road dust consolidation, treatment of mine waters containing heavy metals/acid mine drainage, restoration of water table and …

The expert committee on road map for coal sector reforms (Part-II)

In this report the committee has examined the medium and the long term (up to 2031-32) demand

The expert committee on road map for coal sector reforms (Part-I)

Report would mainly address the issues of increasing the availability of coal in the short to medium term and bridge the gap between demand and supply. It was felt that the role of captive coal producers would be quite important and captive mining could take root and contribute significantly in …

Cleansing solution

a strategy is being chalked out to make the washing of mined coal mandatory in India. There is no gainsaying the fact that such cleansing can rid the mineral of impurities. At the same time coal washing itself is a highly polluting process. Its environmental implications can, therefore, prove to …

Damodar Ten years after

Also read: Damodar - Ten years ago Dhanbad town exists for one reason: coal. This much becomes quickly clear to me. A fine layer of coal dust covers everything in the hotel I have put up in, and the manager has assumed I have something to do with the coal …

Beneficial ban

a ban on the sale, marketing and distribution of bituminous coal in Dublin since 1990 has decreased particulate emissions in Ireland. According to a study published in Lancet, the Irish government's move to forbid the burning of bituminous coal has also reduced the mortality rate in the area. The research …

Consigned to flames

"Abandon all hope, all ye who enter" This inscription that marks the gates of hell in Dante's Inferno could well be true for Jharia town in Jharkhand. For, the underground fires that have been raging in the coalfields here for over several decades are now beginning to engulf its thickly …

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