South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) is the largest coal producing company of

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. It is a "Miniratna" Company, and one of eight fully owned subsidiaries of

Coal India Limited Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India. It is headquartered at Kolkata. It is the ''largest government-owned-coal-producer'' in the world. It is ...

. The company has its headquarter at Bilaspur,

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and 92 mines spread over

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; 70 underground, 21 opencast, and 1 mixed. It is a schedule 'B' Mini Ratna CPSE in coal & lignite under the administrative control of

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The Company came into existence in 1985, when the

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, decided to bifurcate a part of coal mines held by

Western Coalfields Limited Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) is one of the eight Subsidiary Companies of Coal India Limited (CIL) which is under administrative control of Ministry of Coal. The Company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 has its registered office at ...

into new company called South Eastern Coalfields Limited, along with

Central Coalfields Limited Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), an undertaking of the Government of India. CCL was established in 1956 as National Coal Development Corporation Limited and is a Category-I Mini Ratna company sinc ...

, which was bifurcated into Northern Coalfields Limited, for administrative purpose. As of 01.04.2012, the total geological coal reserve in SECL command area is 58253.15 Million tons, out of which 16076.54 Million tons is the proved reserve. The coal deposits of SECL occurs in the great Son-Mahanadi master basin. It spreads over 6 districts namely Korba, Raigarh, Surguja, Surajpur, Balrampur & Korea) in Chhattisgarh (C.G) state and 3 districts viz. Shahdol, Anuppur & Umaria districts in Madhya Pradesh (M.P). The total coal reserve in M.P as of 01.04.2012 is 7407.00 MT while in C.G, it is 50846.15 MT.

Coalfields Under SECL

For effective administrative control and operation, the mines have been grouped in three Coalfields with 13 operating areas - # ''Central India Coalfields (CIC)'' #* Chirimiri Area #* Baikunthpur Area #* Bishrampur Area #* Hasdeo Area #* Bhatgaon Area (Bhatgaon Colliery) #* Jamuna & Kotma Area #* Sohagpur Area #* Johilla Area # ''Korba Coalfields'' #* Korba Area #* Kusmunda Area #* Dipka Area #* Gevra Area # ''Mand-Raigarh Coalfields'' #* Raigarh Area

References

Coal India subsidiaries Coal companies of India Mining in Chhattisgarh Companies based in Chhattisgarh Government-owned companies of India Indian companies established in 1985 Non-renewable resource companies established in 1985 1985 establishments in Madhya Pradesh {{India-company-stub