NTPC to start mining coal from Jharkhand

NEW DELHI.   NTPC Ltd is set to start mining from its captive PakriBarwadih coal block in Jharkhand to produce power.

 

“We are waiting for last minute approvals. Then it will go onstream immediately,” a senior Government official told . The coal block could start production from this week. Captive mining is a first for the country’s biggest power generator, which depends on Coal India Ltd, another state-run company, for fuel and has been meeting the gap in its requirement through imports.