Lok Sabha Question No. 2098 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-10
Subject: Coal Blocks in NER
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: RANJANBEN BHATT

## Unstarred Question No. 2098 To be answered on 10.03.2016

## Government of India Ministry of Coal Lok Sabha Coal Blocks in NER

## 2098. SHRIMATI RANJANBEN BHATT:

Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  any  data  of  the  coal  blocks  in  NorthEastern region;
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the efforts being made by the Government to exploit coal reserves in the  NER  to  meet  the  shortage  of  supply  of  coal  in  power  and  other sectors/industries?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (I/C) FOR COAL, POWER, NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a)  to  (c):  State  wise  reserves  of  coal  in  Million  Tonnes  in  the  North  Eastern Region of India is as below:

| Sl. No      | State                       | Coalfields (CF)             |   Proved |   Indicated |   Inferred (Exploration) | Inferred (Mapping)   |   Total |
|-------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|----------|-------------|--------------------------|----------------------|---------|
| 1           | ARUNACHAL                   | MIAO BUM CF                 |     0    |        0    |                     0    | 6.00                 |    6    |
| 1           | PRADESH NAMCHIK- NAMPHUK CF | PRADESH NAMCHIK- NAMPHUK CF |    31.23 |       40.11 |                    12.89 | 0.00                 |   84.23 |
| 1           | ARUNACHAL PRADESH Total     | ARUNACHAL PRADESH Total     |    31.23 |       40.11 |                    12.89 | 6.00                 |   90.23 |
| 2           | ASSAM                       | DILLI-JEYPORE CF            |    32    |       22.02 |                     0    | 0.00                 |   54.02 |
| 2           | ASSAM                       | MAKUM CF                    |   432.09 |       20.7  |                     0    | 0.00                 |  452.79 |
| 2           | ASSAM                       | MIKIR HILLS CF              |     0.69 |        0    |                     0.5  | 2.52                 |    3.71 |
| 2           | ASSAM                       | SINGRIMARI CF               |     0    |        4.13 |                     0    |                      |    4.13 |
| 2           | ASSAM Total                 | ASSAM Total                 |   464.78 |       46.85 |                     0.5  | 2.52                 |  514.65 |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | .JAYANTI HILLS CF(MINOR CF) |     0    |        0    |                     1.1  | 1.24                 |    2.34 |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | BALPHAKRAM- PENDENGURU CF   |     0    |        0    |                     0    | 107.03               |  107.03 |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | BAPUNG CF                   |    11.01 |        0    |                    22.65 | 0.00                 |   33.66 |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | EAST DARANGIRI CF           |     0    |        0    |                     0    | 34.19                |   34.19 |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | KHASI HILLS CF(MINOR CF)    |     0    |        0    |                     0    | 10.10                |   10.1  |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | LANGRIN CF                  |    10.46 |       16.51 |                     0    | 106.19               |  133.16 |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | MAWLONG-SHELLA              |     2.17 |        0    |                     3.83 | 0.00                 |    6    |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | SIJU CF                     |     0    |        0    |                     0    | 125.00               |  125    |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA                   | WEST DARANGGIRI CF          |    65.4  |        0    |                     0    | 59.60                |  125    |
| 3           | MEGHALAYA Total             | MEGHALAYA Total             |    89.04 |       16.51 |                    27.58 | 443.35               |  576.48 |
| 4           | NAGALAND                    | BORJAN CF                   |     5.5  |        0    |                     0    | 4.50                 |   10    |
| 4           | NAGALAND                    | DGM REPORT                  |     0    |        0    |                     0    | 293.47               |  293.47 |
| 4           | NAGALAND                    | JHANZI-DISAI CF             |     2    |        0    |                     0    | 0.08                 |    2.08 |
| 4           | NAGALAND                    | TIRU VALLEY CF              |     0    |        0    |                     6.6  | 0.00                 |    6.6  |
| 4           | NAGALAND                    | TUEN SANG CF                |     1.26 |        0    |                     2    | 0.00                 |    3.26 |
| 4           | NAGALAND Total              | NAGALAND Total              |     8.76 |        0    |                     8.6  | 298.05               |  315.41 |
| 5           | SIKKIM RANGIT VALLEY CF     | SIKKIM RANGIT VALLEY CF     |     0    |       58.25 |                    42.98 |                      |  101.23 |
| 5           | SIKKIM Total                | SIKKIM Total                |     0    |       58.25 |                    42.98 |                      |  101.23 |
| Grand Total | Grand Total                 | Grand Total                 |   593.81 |      161.72 |                    92.55 | 749.92               | 1598    |

Production of coal in Million Tonne (MT) by North Eastern Coalfields (NEC), Coal India Limited during the last three years is given below:-

| Company   | State   |   2012-13 (MT) |   2013-14 (MT) |   2014-15 (MT) |
|-----------|---------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
| NEC       | Assam   |            0.6 |           0.66 |           0.78 |

Following  future  projects  have  been  identified  in  North  Eastern Coalfields to meet the shortage of supply of coal.

|   S. No. | Name of the Project   |   Estimated Capacity (MT) |
|----------|-----------------------|---------------------------|
|        1 | Tipong OC             |                      1    |
|        2 | Jagan Block OC        |                      0.5  |
|        3 | PQ Block OC           |                      0.15 |
|        4 | Tikak integrated OC   |                      0.55 |

Coal  India  Limited  (CIL)  has  envisaged  doubling  of  its  coal  production  by 2019-20 for which following steps have been taken:

- i. Mines  /  projects  to  produce  about  908.10  Million  Tonnes  have already been identified and further plans to augment production up to 1000 Million Tonnes are being developed.
- ii. An assessment of  the  need  for  up-gradation  of  technology  presently under practice in CIL mines and scope for further modernization has been carried out.
- iii. In order to maintain the planned growth in production and evacuation in  future,  CIL  has  undertaken  three  major  Railway  infrastructure projects  to  be  executed  by  Indian  Railways  in  growing  coalfields  of South  Eastern  Coalfields  Limited,  Mahanadi  Coalfields  Limited,  & Central Coalfields Limited.
- iv. Exploration capacity is being increased through induction of modern equipment and outsourcing.
- v. High  capacity  mines  are  being  planned  with  deployment  of  high capacity/ high productivity equipment in Open Cast & Underground mines.
- vi. Efforts  are  being  made  by  all  subsidiaries  of  CIL  for  obtaining Environmental  Clearance/Forest  Clearances  within  the  scheduled time frame so that projects could start production.

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