A Coal India arm plans to involve private agencies in detailed coal exploration of mines as the mining major seeks to double its production by 2020.
"In order to enhance the 'Proved' coal resource base, CMPDI (Coal India arm) plans to take up the detailed exploration in coal blocks," an official source said.
Mine planning and consultancy Central Mine Planning & Design Institute (CMPDI) is organising a pre-Notice Inviting Tender meeting next week for the outsourcing of detailed exploration of future mines, the source said.
Coal India accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic coal production. Government has set a target of 1.5 billion tonnes coal output by 2020, of which 1 billion tonnes would be from the state-run miner.
The output of Coal India is expected at 535-540 million tonnes this fiscal against the target of 550 MT due to slump in demand, a top government official had said earlier.
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Despite incessant rainfall during past few days in some parts of the country, partially affecting coal mining operations and railway logistics, there is sufficient power available for grid requirement as reflected through grid stability maintaining a healthy daily average frequency in the range of 49.96-50.02 Hz, NTPC said in a statement.
Efforts are on to improve coal supply through a contingency plan drawn by CIL, the statement said.
