The Indian government has accorded environmental clearances to 17 mining projects of State-run, Coal India Limited, paving the way for the miner to achieve production of one-billion tons a year.
“These clearances will add 150-million tons a year to production of CIL and increase its washing capacity to 25-million tons a year, enabling the company to achieve production of one-billion tons a year by 2023/24,” Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi said in a statement.
CIL aims to produce 750-million tons of coal during 2020/21, the Coal Minister said, up from the targeted 660-million tons during the year ended March 31, 2020, accounting for about 82% of total domestic dry fuel production during the current year.