THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINES & MINERALS (SMT. RITA VERMA)
(a)& (b): The total number of cross country
conveyor transportation machine place-wise is as under:
Name of the Number of Status company and CCCT washery machines
CCL- Kargali 1 Not in use and being dismantled. Washery
BCCL- Madhuban 2 One in operation and the other is Washery under commissioning.
(c) & (d) : CCCT at Kargali Washery was set up and
commissioned in the year 1986 at a cost of Rs. 4 crores
as sufficient coking coal was available at CCCT area to
supply coal from linked mines to the washery.
Because of the drying up of linked sources of
coking coal, the washery was converted to non-coking
coal washery from 1.6.1999.
Washery is now receiving non-coking coal from
other sources making the use of CCCT redundant.
According to a study conducted in 1998-99, the
cost of coal transportation at that given time was Rs.
44.76 per tonne through CCCT against present cost of
transportation of Rs. 28.28 per tonne for non-coking
coal.
The conveyor structure and other parts of CCCT are
in the process of dismantling and shall be used at
suitable places in the company as and when required.
With dismantling of CCCT at Kargali, coking coal
blocked by this structure will be released for mining,
as structures are falling within mineable area of
Bokaro OCP.
