The Singrauli based Coal Indian Arm, Northern Coalfields Limited crossed a deep milestone on Sunday while successfully conducting the trial of coal rake loading from its newly constructed Coal Handling Plant’s Silo of its Block-B Area.
In the online event, CMD NCL Shri P K Sinha, GM ECR Shri Lalit Chandra Trivedi, Functional Directors of NCL, and senior officials of railways flagged off the trail of coal loading in railway wagons.
Speaking on the occasion, CMD NCL Shri P K Sinha said that this pro-environmental project will not only reduce road transportation but also underpin the dispatch mechanism of NCL. As our commitment to sustainable green mining, this is our second project to commission this year. He also thanked the Coal and Railway Ministry and their officials for support and He entails that this project is a perfect example of a concerted effort of the government agencies in the larger public interest.
GM ECR Shri Lalit Chandra Trivedi congratulated the team NCL on this occasion and expressed his happiness over the completion of this project as this will boost the coal transportation through the zone.
Commencement of Rake loading from the Coal Handling Plant (CHP) having the capacity to handle 3.5 million tonnes of coal per annum can load about 3 Rakes per day. The CHP will eliminate about 500 trucks transporting coal each day thereby reducing the carbon footprint. The CHP has a rapid loading system and is equipped with a pre-weigh hopper weighing system which will eliminate underloading and overloading.
It is noteworthy that NCL is spending about 2700 crores capital expenditure on 9 projects of first-mile connectivity, successful implementation of those will increase NCL’s coal crushing capacity to more than 130 million tonnes and will pave the way to dispatch the targeted coal in environmentally friendly ways by the year 2023-24 making the nation self-reliant in the Coal sector.
NCL, is a Miniratna coal mining giant of the Government of India, operating with its 10 highly mechanized opencast coal mines establishing new benchmarks in all fields including the realm of production & productivity.
