The Northern Coalfields Limited’s (NCL), Singrauli based subsidiary of Coal India Limited, has set a new record by dispatching maximum coal in a day on Friday. The NCL dispatched about 3.76 lakh tonnes on Friday which is the highest coal dispatch in a day since the inception of this mini-ratna company. NCL also did 4.02 lakh tonnes of record coal production on Friday, which is more than any single day production of this financial year. On this spectacular achievement, the CMD and Functional Directors of the company have congratulated the team NCL.

 

With the relentless efforts of NCL employees even in the tough time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has produced about 77.4 million tonnes of coal in FY 20-21 with a growth of 5.4%. NCL has also recorded a phenomenal growth of about 20% y-o-y in Overburden Removal, the material above coal layers which is to be removed for coal exposure.

 

Overburden removal is an important factor to judge the performance of opencast mining companies. NCL has dispatched about 73.16 million tonnes of coal out of an annual coal dispatch target of 113.25 million tonnes. Going by the figures it is expected that NCL will once again cross its assigned targets and will set new records. In the last FY 2019-20 also, NCL produced and dispatched more coal than its set targets.