NCL achieves new highs in coal production & dispatch

Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) has produced 108.05 MT of coal in the FY 2019-20, which is the highest-ever coal production in its 34 years of journey

Singrauli: Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL), a subsidiary company of Coal India Limited (CIL), has once again outshined in its performance. The company has produced more coal than its assigned targets and has also crossed dispatch targets of FY 2019-20. Recording highest-ever production & dispatch the company till the last day of the financial year has produced 108.05 MT coal with 6.45 percent growth surpassing its annual target of 106.25 percent coal production. Similarly, the company has also surpassed its annual coal dispatch targets of 106.25 MT by dispatching 107.42 MT of coal with 5.75 percent growth y-o-y.

Highest-ever production & dispatch

On this spectacular performance of the company, the NCL's Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) PK Sinha, Director (Technical/Operations) Gunadhar Pandey, Director (Finance) NN Thakur, Director (Technical, Project and Planning) MK Prasad and Director (Personnel) Bimlendu Kumar warmly congratulated the team NCL and all the stakeholders of the company and urged them to stand with full zeal for the coming year.

They also appealed to team NCL to abide by all instructions and precautions with due regard to safety during coal production in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.

Positive growth in all segment

On Tuesday, NCL also achieved its highest-ever single day production with 4.13 lakhs tonnes of coal and NCL is the only subsidiary of Coal India to have positive growth in coal production, dispatch, and OBR for the FY 2019-20. The company has dispatched more than 80 percent of its total dispatch to powerhouses.

Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL)

NCL is Singrauli (The energy capital of India) based Miniratna company of the government and subsidiary of Coal India Limited the company produces coal from its 10 highly mechanized open cast coal mines with more than 1,200 heavy machines. The company utilizes modern infrastructure like rapid loading system for loading and merry-go-round and belt pipe conveyor systems for coal transportation for coal dispatch. The company has also deployed surface miners in its mines.