CIL fast tracking equipment procurement plan

According to reports, Coal India (CIL) is fast tracking the process of procuring 360 high capacity mining equipment valued at over Rs 70 billion to bolster production. Those heavy earth-moving machinery (HEMM) would be pressed into operation in the CIL?s opencast mines. The machinery that CIL plans to acquire includes rear dumpers of capacities ranging from 150 tonne to 240 tonne, electric rope shovels of 20 and 42 cu m capacities, 15 cu m hydraulic face shovels, 10-12 cu m hydraulic shovels, 460 HP wheel dozers and 850 HP crawler dozers. Tendering for very high capacity draglines is also on the anvil.

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