Barpali rail link crucial for MCL

Union coal secretary, S K Srivastava today stressed that officials of the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) must make an effort for early completion of 53-km-long Jharsuguda-Barpalli railway line, which is crucial for the expansion of coalfields in Basundhara coal mine area in Sundergarh district.

The coal ministry official stressed for holding regular meetings with railway authorities for speedy completion of the projects, according to a release issued by the coal miner. Srivastava, who was on a one-day visit to the Coal India subsidiary headquartered at Sambalpur, reviewed the performance of the MCL and said, for Coal India to achieve the growth rate of 10 per cent, MCL must remain consistent. In the first half of the current fiscal, the coal miner achieved a growth rate of 15.4 % in coal production compared with the same period of last year.