Chhattisgarh Coal Mine

A man allegedly died by suicide in Chhattisgarh's Korba district after claiming in a video that his property had been acquired for a coal mine but he had neither got money or a job as compensation, a police official said on Saturday.

Coal India Ltd. is holding talks with residents opposed to a mine expansion that would create one of the world's largest operations producing the fuel.

Gevra Mega project in Chhattisgarh of South Eastern Coalfields (SECL) recently became the first mine in the country to achieve 50 million tonne of coal production annually. The government is currently trying to expand its capacity to achieve 70 million tonne output annually which would make it the largest coal-producing mine in Asia.

A special court in Raipur on Friday extended by six days the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of an IAS officer and two others in a money laundering case linked to the alleged extortion of money from coal and mining transporters in Chhattisgarh.

A large number of tribals and forest-dwellers on Wednesday reached Raipur by covering a distance of 300km on foot as part of a protest to demand immediate cancellation of coal mining projects in the Hasdeo Aranya region of Chhattisgarh

Two men were allegedly tied to poles and assaulted by four persons, including two security guards of a private company, who accused them of attempting theft in a coal mine area in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday.

Heavy rain in Chhattisgarh's Korba district has led to flooding in the lower trenches of the Dipka coal mine and severely affected operations in the country's third-largest open-pit mining operation, which produces over 35 million tonnes of coal every year

Three employees of the South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), including a mining supervisor, were choked to death in a non-functional tunnel of an underground coal mine in Chhattisgarh's Korba district.

Three workers were killed after a gas leak in an underground coal mine of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, police said.

The Coal Ministry has slapped a show cause notice on GMR for delay in payment with regard to the Talabira coal mine in Odisha.

Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Aranya forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.

Coal Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday told the Lok Sabha that state-owned Coal India Limited (CIL), the designated custodian for Gare Palma IV/1 coal mine in Chhattisgarh, has taken steps to restart mining work of the block.

The last three rounds have generated proceeds of more than Rs 3 lakh crore, which would be realised over 30 years by eastern states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, in addition to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, where these mines are located.

On the first day of the current round on Tuesday, the government auctioned two blocks in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, which fetched Rs 2,529 crore.

The first day of third tranche of coal mine auctions on Tuesday saw the government garnering a total of Rs 2,529 crore from bidding of two blocks in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

A man allegedly died by suicide in Chhattisgarh's Korba district after claiming in a video that his property had been acquired for a coal mine but he had neither got money or a job as compensation, a police official said on Saturday.

Coal India Ltd. is holding talks with residents opposed to a mine expansion that would create one of the world's largest operations producing the fuel.

Gevra Mega project in Chhattisgarh of South Eastern Coalfields (SECL) recently became the first mine in the country to achieve 50 million tonne of coal production annually. The government is currently trying to expand its capacity to achieve 70 million tonne output annually which would make it the largest coal-producing mine in Asia.

A special court in Raipur on Friday extended by six days the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of an IAS officer and two others in a money laundering case linked to the alleged extortion of money from coal and mining transporters in Chhattisgarh.

A large number of tribals and forest-dwellers on Wednesday reached Raipur by covering a distance of 300km on foot as part of a protest to demand immediate cancellation of coal mining projects in the Hasdeo Aranya region of Chhattisgarh

Two men were allegedly tied to poles and assaulted by four persons, including two security guards of a private company, who accused them of attempting theft in a coal mine area in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday.

Heavy rain in Chhattisgarh's Korba district has led to flooding in the lower trenches of the Dipka coal mine and severely affected operations in the country's third-largest open-pit mining operation, which produces over 35 million tonnes of coal every year

Three employees of the South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), including a mining supervisor, were choked to death in a non-functional tunnel of an underground coal mine in Chhattisgarh's Korba district.

Three workers were killed after a gas leak in an underground coal mine of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, police said.

The Coal Ministry has slapped a show cause notice on GMR for delay in payment with regard to the Talabira coal mine in Odisha.

Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Aranya forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.

Coal Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday told the Lok Sabha that state-owned Coal India Limited (CIL), the designated custodian for Gare Palma IV/1 coal mine in Chhattisgarh, has taken steps to restart mining work of the block.

The last three rounds have generated proceeds of more than Rs 3 lakh crore, which would be realised over 30 years by eastern states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, in addition to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, where these mines are located.

On the first day of the current round on Tuesday, the government auctioned two blocks in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, which fetched Rs 2,529 crore.

The first day of third tranche of coal mine auctions on Tuesday saw the government garnering a total of Rs 2,529 crore from bidding of two blocks in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.