New Delhi: Power Maharatna NTPC Limited on Tuesday said that it has registered a growth of 148 percent in coal production from its captive mines in April 2023 as compared to production registered in April 2022. NTPC recorded 2.75 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of coal production during the month of April 2023 as compared 1.11 MMT recorded for the month of April 2022.

India’s largest power producer also achieved highest-ever monthly coal despatch of 2.95 MMT in April 2023, 140 percent increase on coal despatch volumes of 1.23 MMT achieved in the month of April 2022.

NTPC recorded a coal production of 23.2 million tonnes in FY23, witnessing a 65 percent growth against 14.02 million tonnes a year ago from its four operational coal mines -NTPC Pakri-Barwadih (Jharkhand), NTPC Chatti Bariatu (Jharkhand), NTPC Dulanga (Odisha) and NTPC Talaipalli (Chhattisgarh).

The digitisation initiatives by the coal mining teams have helped in raising the bar in operational excellence in the mining operations. The improved processes have helped in enhancing safety in mining operations and have also led to the implementation of e-SMP, a digitalized safety management plan and a mobile app for safety, Sachetan.

NTPC Group’s installed and commercial capacity of NTPC group has become 72304 MW as on May 2, 2023.

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