NMDC is allocated with two coal blocks in Jharkhand State
Recently Ministry of Coal has allocated two coal blocks to NMDC, the Rohne and
Tokisud North under Section 5(1) of Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act 2015 for
commercial mining. Both these blocks are located at Hazaribagh District of
Jharkhand.
The Rohne coal block has extractable reserves of 191 million tonnes and planned
production capacity of 8 million tonnes per annum. The Tokisud North coal block has
extractable reserves of about 52 . million tonnes of thermal coal and planned
production capacity of 2.32 million tonnes per annum. Both the blocks are located at
aerial distance of about 10-15 kms. Rohne coal block has coking coal which may
require washing of coal for feeding into steel plant and hence NMDC is exploring the
possibility for setting up of coal washeries. NMDC is going to execute allotment
agreement of Tokisud North coal block on 24.12.2019. The Rohne coal block
allotm_ent agreement would be executed as per the directives from Ministry of Coal
with respective execution date.
Both the coal blocks have been allocated to NMDC based on the diligent efforts of
NMDC's Coal Division. This coal division has been setup at Hyderabad exclusively
for coal assets in India to provide linkage to steel and power sector.
Expressing his happiness, Shri N. Baijendra Kumar, IAS, CMD, NMDC thanked
Government oflndia especially Steel Ministry and Coal Ministry for reposing faith on
NMDC for diversifying into coal.