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Coal India Limited (CIL) has taken a number of actions to promote cleaner coal technologies like use of surface miner and dispatch through merry-go-round/Conveyors etc, said Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on November 28, 2016.

In view of major environmental concerns, especially the climate change, Goyal said that for all the new and expansion projects, detailed project specific Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is undertaken and appropriate remedial measures, as prescribed, are planned and implemented for mitigating the environmental impacts.

He assured CIL will continue to undertake appropriate adaptation and mitigation centric measures to address evironmental concerns.

“As outlined in India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), CIL will continue its endeavor to reduce emission intensity through introduction of eco-friendly mining technologies and creating additional carbon sink through massive afforestation”, he said.

Goyal also informed the house that CIL has planned to gradually increase its annual production of coal from 536.50 Million Tonnes in 2015-16 to One Billion Tonnes by the year 2019-20.

Mines have been identified to produce about 908 Mt and of the 1 billion ton target.

CIL’s roadmap to substantially enhance production of coal by 2019-20 includes capacity addition from new projects, use of mass production technologies and identification of existing on-going projects with growth potential. fii-news.com