CCL proposes 16 new projects in 11th Plan period

Ranchi: Central Coalfield (CCL) has proposed 16 new projects during the 11th Plan period to enhance production. The proposal will help achieve CCL a production level of 78 million tonne (mt) in the terminal year of 2011-12.

With CCL all set to meet its target of 47 mt coal production this fiscal, it also envisages to produce 115 mt by the end of 12th Plan (2016/17), the sources added.

In 2008, the company has produced a record production of 44.15 million tonne, the highest since the inception of the public sector.

The CCL has thrice posted profits over Rs 1,000 crore by meeting its production targets -- productivity and profit in the last three fiscal.

With an aim to accelerate its record, the public sector is mooting an idea to introduce a single window grievance redressal system in which any employee of the CCL could get their grievances addressed by raising them before the authorities.