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SCCL’s Adriyala project commences production

October 15: The much-awaited Adriyala longwall underground mining project of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has started pilot production on October 11 and will start commercial production from November, a company spokesperson told ICMW.

“We started production last week on a pilot basis. Full-fledged commercial production will start by late October or the first week of November,” the official said.

“First year’s production can be estimated only after witnessing the performance in the initial months,” he said.

Adriyala is touted as Asia’s biggest longwall project and will have a peak production level of 2.81 million tons per annum (mtpa). It involves an investment of Rs 846 crore and is the biggest project undertaken by SCCL so far.

The project will feed NTPC’s Ramagundam power station in Telangana.