ECL to digitised its land records; signs MoU with National Informatics Centre

New Delhi:  India-based coal producer Eastern Coalfields Limited has signed an MoU with National Informatics Centre for digitization of its land-related returns of the Company as a part of the project “Consolidation of Accountable Land, Resettlement and Rehabilitation of ECL (COALRR)”.

At the time of nationalisation, 414 coal mines, almost wholly in the Raniganj Coalfield, came under the jurisdiction of ECL. The mines were regrouped to around 123 mines. Production from these mines in 1973-74 was 21 million tonnes, of which 20.744 million tonnes were from underground mines and the rest from manual quarries. 

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