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Coal companies, mainly the Central Coalfield Limited (CCL), Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), seem to be neglecting the safety directives issued by the Director General Mining Safety (DGMS) resulting in many ecological problems as well as health hazards to the people residing close to the coal mining sites of the State.

Dhanbad, April 2: Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) has requested the state government to utilise the extra money it has paid as royalty cess for 2009- 10 fiscal to execute the Rs 7,028-crore master plan to rehabilitate the victims of a raging underground fire in Jharia.

DVC places order; negotiations with NTPC not successful.
Coal import has become critical for the power sector due to the widening demand supply gap in thermal coal.

Coal India Ltd's plan to enter into thermal coal import business is yet to find many takers in the power sector.

Dhanbad, March 14: Days after 17-year-old Pankaj Goswami fell into a closed pit of BCCL

Virendra Pandit

The Rs 1,800-crore expansion plans of Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), a subsidiary of the world's largest coal-producer Coal India Ltd (CIL), are likely to run into rough weather due to the existing resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) policy, according to Mr D.C. Garg, Chairman and Managing Director.

Dhanbad, Feb. 8: Residents, chambers of commerce and lawyers of Jharia are coming together to save the coal mining town plagued by a raging underground fire, fed up of the short-sightedness of coal companies to the continuing threat of illegal as well indiscriminate mining.

Gireesh Chandra Prasad

Identify problems for climate funding, India urged

New Delhi: Companies that get licenses to find and produce coal-bed-methane (CBM), a clean fuel, later this month will have to adhere to a new environment clearance regime instead of what the petroleum ministry had originally said in a model contract.

Dhanbad: Officers of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) have joined hands with the company management to motivate workers to help boost production to meet the 28.5-million tonne target and help the firm earn a mini ratna status this fiscal.

After hearing a PIL filed by people of Bhuli in Dhanbad, who are facing eviction, the Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday told the Centre and State Government to issue proper instruction in the matter.

How about giving the usual picnic spots a miss and spending the day in an abandoned mine instead? Sounds unreal?

Not any longer. The district administration and the forest department are working in tandem to develop collieries and convert them into tourist hotspots. The purpose is to promote coal tourism and eco-tourism.

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