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Coal India subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) has decided to double the 53.1-km Jharsuguda-Sardega rail link to scale up coal handling.
"MCL has already invested Rs 11.25 billion on the railway line. We are going to have a second line wherein total project investment will go up to Rs 25 billion. After commissioning of the second line, the handling capacity will be ramped up to 40 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) from 13 mtpa," said Jaswinder Pal Singh, director (technical & operations), MCL.
Singh said that MCL produced 143 million tonnes (mt) of coal in the last financial year. In FY19, the
