Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) faces a herculean task of producing an average of about 3.04 lakh tonnes of coal every day or 9.42 million tonnes this month to reach the target of 68 million tonnes production in the 2021-22 fiscal.
In spite of best of its efforts backed by increasing demand for coal from the energy sector as well as cement and steel industries, the company could achieve a production of 6.04 million tonnes in February, highest for a month in 11 months of 2021-22, at the rate of nearly 2.16 lakh tonnes a day. Incidentally, it was also higher that the month’s target of 5.91 million tonnes.
According to the company officials, coal production achieved by the company in 11 months of the current fiscal is 58.58 million tonnes against its plans to produce/mine 61.86 million tonnes or 3.28 million tonnes less than the target. “Achieving over 3 lakh tonnes of coal every day is no mean task even if the heavy machinery is put into use for 18 hours a day as mandated by the management to reach the target”, a senior executive overseeing mining operations said.
