The pit as a destination
There is a particular quality to the silence that settles over a coal mine when operations cease.
There is a particular quality to the silence that settles over a coal mine when operations cease.
Leader of the Opposition, Umang Singhar, raised the issue during Question Hour in the ongoing Budget Session.
In a significant step towards strengthening India’s energy security and accelerating economic growth, the Union ministry of coal has executed Coal Mine Development and Production Agreements (CMDPAs) with the Kolkata-based Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for three commercial coal blocks ~ Dhulia North, Mandakini B and Pirpainti Barahat.
Efforts to rescue eight labourers trapped in a flooded coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district are on as specialized navy divers work alongside the army and the National Disaster Response Force personnel.
In a tragic incident in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, at least three miners were feared killed while 17 others are still trapped in a flooded rat-hole mine in the 3 Kilo area of Umrangso in Assam.
Building on the success of previous rounds, the Ministry continues its efforts to unlock India's vast coal reserves and enhance energy security, the statement said.
The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has recovered a body of an unknown person from a jungle near a closed open cast coal mine in Kalipahari area, under Asansol South police station here this morning.
Andal police have recovered the body of an unidentified person from Jambadh open cast coal mine in Banbahal area last night. The unidentified body has been sent to Asansol District Hospital for post-mortem.
A coal mine of the Eastern Coalfields Limited of Coal India, operating 200 metres below the surface, has topped the country in question of safer mining and has been awarded by the Director General of Mines Safety.
Members of Krishi Jomi Jiban Jibika Raksha Committee started an agitation against forcible land grabbing by the land mafia and have set on fire a makeshift thatched office of the land syndicate at Dakshinkhanda in Andal Police Station area of West Burdwan district.
