Stock market ends flat amid mixed global cues
At the close, the Sensex ended 27 points, or 0.03%, lower at 82,248.61, while the Nifty 50 was up by 14 points, or 0.06%, to settle at 25,496.55.
At the close, the Sensex ended 27 points, or 0.03%, lower at 82,248.61, while the Nifty 50 was up by 14 points, or 0.06%, to settle at 25,496.55.
The BSE 150 Midcap index inched up by 0.10%, while the BSE 250 Smallcap index slipped 0.19%.
At close, the Sensex was up 301.93 points or 0.36% at 83,878.17, and the Nifty was up 106.95 points or 0.42% at 25,790.25.
Eastern Coalfields Limited, hosted the 54th meeting of the Coal India Limited Welfare Board here today, underscoring its continued commitment to employee welfare and inclusive growth through a sustained approach to workforce development across the coal sector.
The event began with floral tributes at the Shaheed Smarak, where Director (Finance) Pawan Kumar Mishra and Director (Technical/Operations) Chandra Shekhar Tiwari paid homage to martyred coal workers.
The company in association with GAIL (India) Limited and BEML Limited has already taken up a pilot project for retrofitting LNG kits in its two 100 tonne dumpers operating at the subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL).
The association said the aluminium industry is highly power-intensive and the current crisis is because Coal India has significantly reduced supplies.
CIL, one of the major suppliers of fossil fuel to the power sector, accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic coal output. It is eyeing one billion tonnes of output by 2023-24.
Coal India is focusing on ramping up its supplies to pithead based power plants to higher levels. This would influence in cost per unit of power generated coming down.
The coal major posted a 3 per cent decline in production to 37.36 million tonnes in July 2020.
