ECL Organised a free cataract camp

ECL Organised a free cataract camp

West Bengal: Eastern Coalfields Limited organized a free cataract camp at Jamgram Palli Unnayan Samity in Jamgram village, Barabani Block, Bardhaman District in West Bengal. The camp was organized by Salanpur Area of ECL in association with Punardristee Eye and General Hospital, Asansol.

Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) is a coal producer based in India. It operates coal mines in Jharkhand and West Bengal states of India. It is one of the fully owned subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. The company has its headquarters at Sanctoria, in West Bengal.

As of 2017, Eastern Coalfields had 14 operating areas with 87 working mines, 60 being underground mines, 19 open cast, and 8 mixed mines. In 2016–17, ECL produced 40.517 million tonnes of coal, of which 32.319 million tonnes were from open cast mines and 8.127 million tonnes were from underground mines. It was the highest ever production. The off-take of coal from ECL by the power sector was 40.121 million tonnes in 2016–17.

Actual off-take of coal in 2019-20 was 49.316 million tonne against the demand of 53.50 million tonne i.e. demand satisfaction of 92%.

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