Bhubaneswari coal mines new record

TALCHER: Breaking all-time record, Bhubaneswari open cast mine (OCP) under Jagannath area produced a whopping 70,330 tonne of coal here on Sunday, the highest single day output in Coal India Limited. Earlier in the month the OCP, fully outsourced, produced over 60,000 tonne on a single day. “The production will go up to about 8,000 tonne a day in the coming days as new machines have been installed. The mine has been given a target of seven million tonne in the current fiscal that we will certainly achieve,” said a colliery authority. Not only Bhubaneswari, all other mines at Talcher have boosted coal production at this terminal month of the current financial.  Hingula area, which was one of the worst performers last year, is picking up  its output despite  recurrent agitations by local villagers. It may be noted that the MCL has pinned its hopes on Bhubaneswari and Kaniha open cast projects in Talcher coalfield to help the company achieve its desired growth rate in future. MCL Public Relations Officer Diken Mehra told this paper that the company had so far produced about 97 million tonne of coal at the daily rate of 4.3 lakh tonne output both in Talcher and Ib valley areas.Last year the production was a little over 100 million tonne. Earlier, MCL CMD AN Sahay indicated that the company would go up to about 103 million tonne, three MT more than the last year’s despite all adversities.