The State-owned miner Singareni Collieries Company Limited has approved production expansion of two mines, one opencast and another underground.
These include Khairagura Opencast mine from 2.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 3.5 MTPA with a capital outlay of Rs 133 crore and PVK underground mine from 3.75 Lakh tonnes per annum to 8.5 LTPA with investment of Rs 114 crore.
The Board meeting chaired by N. Sridhar, Chairman of SCCL, held today, apart from approving the expansion of these two mines under its fold, has decided to acquire equipment required to enhance production capacity.
The Board approved procurement of production related equipment which includes 39 dumpers of 100 tonne capacity and 48 side dump loaders, 75 Tonnes mobile cranes, procurement of ammonium nitrate for company explosive plants among others.
While taking into account improvements made in production and productivity in the fourth quarter, the Board authorised SCCL to follow up on the Naini coal block allocated recently.
While filling non-executive cadre posts at entry level through direct recruitment, it was decided that the first 20 per cent of the posts will be filled from the combined merit list of open category, both local and non local only from the State of Telangana. The remaining 80 per cent posts will be filled only by local candidates of four coal belt districts of Telangana.