After the incessant rains draining its ambitious plans to go for a coal production of 74 million tonnes this fiscal against 70 million tonnes target planned initially, the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has come to terms and has decided to go for 70 million tonnes by mining at least 2 lakh tonnes every day from now.
In the first five months of the current fiscal, till the end of August, the company has managed to produce only 24.3 MT of coal against target of 26.19 MT as part of the annual target of 70 MT. The production in five months has been only 34.7% of the annual target with July and August suffering heavy production loss due to rains.
Heavy rains have badly impacted production in open cast mines, which contribute about four-fifths of the total production. In July it was short by 32.5% when compared to the production in July last year. Similarly, it was nearly 17.5% less in August compared to previous August.
