Private coal producers told to pull up socks to boost production

Coal Secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri calls upon allottees to go extra mile with govt to operationalise the mines

Taking serious note on the delay of operationalising allotted blocks, coal secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri exhorted the allottees to take steps to start the mines and enhance coal production in the country.

“While on the one hand the Central and state governments embark on ease of doing business, it is equally imperative that all the coal block allottees also pull up their socks,” Chaudhuri said at a stakeholder consultation meet organised by Ministry of Coal in collaboration with FICCI in Raipur today.

Highlighting a few cases related to the issues being faced by the coal sector, he said it was often found that