The Government has issued guidelines for setting up coal washeries on public sector coal companies’ land to bridge the demand-supply gap of washed coal.
The details of private washeries operating in coal companies’ land are as under:-
| Coal Company | Name ofWashery | Capacity [in Million Tonnes(Mt)/year] |
Present Status |
| Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL) | M/s Spectrum Coal & Power Ltd. | 7.0 of washed coal and 10.0 throughput | Commercial operation yet to be started |
| Central Coalfields Ltd. (CCL) | M/s. Monnet Daniel | 5.0 | Washing coal for Punjab State Power Corporation Limited |
| South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (SECL) | M/s ACB (India) Limited | 12.0 | Washing coal for Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited, Maharashtra State Power Generation Co. Ltd. etc. |
In addition, Coal India Limited (CIL) has planned to set up 20 nos. of coal washeries (Coking and Non-Coking) having total capacity of 111.1 Mt of raw coal throughput.
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal, Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil in a written reply in Rajya sabha today.