Question : PRODUCTION OF COAL .

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COAL ( SHRI PRATIK PRAKASHBAPU PATIL)

(a): The details of actual coal production by the subsidiaries of CIL as also for SECL for the last three years are given below:

	(in million tonnes)	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14 Upto June 2013	Actual Prod.	Actual Prod.	Actual Prod	Actual Prod
ECL	30.803	30.558	33.901	8.057
BCCL 29.004	30.203	31.211	7.962
CCL	47.521	48.004	48.054	10.066
NCL	66.253	66.401	70.021	14.023
WCL	43.654	43.11	42.287	10.178
SECL	112.705	113.837	118.218	29.080
MCL	100.280	103.118	107.895	23.441
NEC	1.101	0.602	0.604	0.067
Total for CIL	431.32	435.83	452.191	102.874

(b): The Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries have not been importing coal. However, as per the current import policy of the Government, coal is under Open General License (OGL) and users are allowed to import coal as per their requirement.

(c)&(d): In order to improve the quality of coal, CIL and its subsidiaries are adopting various measures that include the following:-

a) Selective Mining by Surface Miners and adopting Clean Coal Technology;

b) Appropriate positioning of over burden and coal benches to avoid contamination;

c) Scrapping / cleaning of coal benches before blasting;

d) Installation of metal detectors/magnetic separators over conveyors before loading coal;

e) High capacity coal handling plant to dispatch sized/ uniform quality of coal at major projects;

f) Establishment of well equipped laboratories at projects for regular quality assessment;

g) Shale picking at mine face, stocks and loading points/ sidings for consistent quality;

h) Installation of Auto Mechanical Samplers (AMS) at all silo loading points

i) Joint sampling facility to consumers having annual requirement of 0.4 million tonnes and above.