Singareni Collieries Company Limited has witnessed robust performance during the first nine months of 2017-18 with the coal shipments going up by 9 per cent to 46.7 million tonnes from 42.7 MT during the corresponding nine months of last fiscal.

The State-owned mining company, which serves as a backbone for several power plants in the region, expects to sustain this growth numbers during the fourth quarter of the current financial year.

As against the targeted shipment of 46.1 MT during the first nine months of this fiscal, Sinagarni Collieries managed to achieve 46.7 million tonne.

Following a review meeting of the performance of the mining company, N.Sridhar, Chairman and Managing Director of SCCL, called upon the Collieries employees to sustain this growth momentum to back the 24x7 power supply initiative for the agriculture sector taken up by the K Chandrasekhar Rao headed Telangana Government.

All the agriculture pump sets in the State are being provided round the clock power without any charge by the State Government. After a pilot initiative, with effect from midnight of December 31, 2017, the agriculture sector is being provided uninterrupted power round the clock.

The overburden removal was also up by 28 per cent during the first nine months at 282.9 million cubic metres as against 221.7 million Cubic metres.

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