Coal

COAL DEPOSITS IN CHHATTISGARH

The state has 16% of the total coal deposits of India.
44483 million tonnes coal has been estimated in 12 coalfields of the State located in Raigarh, Surguja, Koriya and Korba districts.
The state ranks 2nd in coal production by contributing over 18% to the total national production.
Most of the coal deposits are of power grade coal. NTPC & CSEB in Korba are the major producer of thermal power and new a plant of NTPC has been started in Seepat, Bilaspur.
Potential for more power generation units exist in the State. New capacities of 10,000 MW are expected to materialize by 2011.

Govt. Of India, Ministry of coal have thrown open several coal blocks for captive use in private sector JV 28 such blocks tall with in the state Chhattisgarh which have been allowed to various companies list of these blocks and to whom allowed is as under-

CHHATTISGARH
1. SOHAGPUR COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON-COKING TOTAL FOR SOHAGPUR	94.30 94.30 94.30	10.08 10.08 10.08	0.00 0.00 0.00	104.38 104.38 104.38
2. SONHAT COALFIELD SEMI COKING NON COKING COAL	0-300 300-600 0.300 300-600 600-1200	SEMI COKING Total NON-COKING Total TOTAL FOR SONHAT	70.77 0.00 70.77 101.00 27.72 0.00 128.72 199.49	16.45 82.8 99.25 936.39 859.37 568.85 2364.61 2463.86	0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.89 0.00 1.88 1.89	87.22 82.80 170.02 1037.39 888.98 568.85 2495.22 2665.24
3. JHILIMILI COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR JHILIMILI	228.20 228.20 228.20	38.90 38.90 38.90	0.00 0.00 0.00	267.10 267.10 267.10
4. CHIRIMIRI COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR CHIRIMIRI	320.33 320.33 320.33	10.83 10.83 10.83	31.00 31.00 31.00	362.16 362.16 362.16
5. BISRAMPUR COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR BISRAMPUR	849.15 849.15 849.15	765.55 765.55 765.55	0.00 0.00 0.00	1614.70 1614.70 1614.70
6. EAST OF BISRAMPUR COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR EAST OF BISRAMPUR	0.00 0.00 0.00	41.75 41.75 41.75	0.00 0.00 0.00	41.75 41.75 41.75
7. LAKHANPUR COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR LAKHANPUR	365.56 365.56 365.56	85.84 85.84 85.84	0.00 0.00 0.00	451.40 451.40 451.40
8. PANCHBAHINI COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR PANCHBAHINI	0.00 0.00 0.00	11.00 11.00 11.00	0.00 0.00 0.00	11.00 11.00 11.00
9. HASDO-ARAND COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300 300-600	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR HASDO-ARAND	1369.84 0.00 1369.84 1369.84	3207.27 32.09 3239.36 3239.36	377.75 6.75 384.50 384.50	4954.86 38.84 4993.70 4993.70
10. SENDURGARH COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR SENDURGARH	152.89 152.89 152.89	126.32 126.32 126.32	0.00 0.00 0.00	279.21 279.21 279.21
11. KORBA COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300 300-600	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR KORBA	4955.63 24.95 4980.58 4980.58	3593.47 2292.2 5885.67 5885.67	231.47 607.11 838.58 838.58	8780.57 2924.26 11704.83 11704.83
12. MAND-RAIGARH COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300 300-600 600-1200	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR MAND-RAIGARH	3675.70 204.97 0.00 3880.67 3880.67	10841.55 4689.3 213.4 15744.25 15744.25	1942.53 610.19 0.00 2552.72 2552.72	16459.78 5504.46 213.40 22177.64 22177.64
13. TATAPANI-RAMKOLA COALFIELD NON-COKING COAL	0-300 300-600 600-1200	NON COKING Total TOTAL FOR TATAPANI-RAMKOLA	0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00	1065.88 646.29 94.54 1806.71 1806.71	24.85 177.34 0.00 202.19 202.19	1090.73 823.63 94.54 2008.90 1914.36
		TOTAL FOR CHHATTISGARH	12441.01	30230.12	4010.88	46682.01