Assam mining accident: Another body recovered amid rescue efforts
A body was recovered on Saturday morning by rescue teams from the rat-hole coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso area, in Dima Hasao district of Assam, an official said.
A body was recovered on Saturday morning by rescue teams from the rat-hole coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso area, in Dima Hasao district of Assam, an official said.
Public sector undertaking Coal India has deployed a high-capacity pump with a 500 GPM (gallons per minute) capacity to dewater the mine at Assam’s Dima Hasao district where efforts are on to search the trapped labourers.
Bank of India has entered into an MoU with the Coal India Limited, a Maharatna Company for providing Salary account facilities to the employees of Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries.
Coal India is expanding the reach with new hospital partnerships for Thalassemia and Aplastic Anemia Treatments under our CSR initiative Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana.
Coal India CVO Brajesh Kumar Tripathi inaugurated a three-month preventive vigilance campaign at the SECL headquarters on Tuesday. CMD Dr Prem Sagar Mishra presided over the programme.
Coal production in India rose to 58.33 million tonnes in August 2022, up by 8.2 per cent from the 53.88 million tonnes recorded in the corresponding period of last year.
CIL presently has over 2500 dumpers operating in opencast coal mines and the fleet consumes about 65 to 75 per cent of the total diesel used by CIL.
Coal India Ltd (CIL) supplied 117.6 million tonnes to power utilities during July- September 2021 quarter, the highest for Q2 of any year.
The company in association with GAIL (India) Limited and BEML Limited has already taken up a pilot project for retrofitting LNG kits in its two 100 tonne dumpers operating at the subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL).
The association said the aluminium industry is highly power-intensive and the current crisis is because Coal India has significantly reduced supplies.
