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Coal in India

Index Coal in India

Coal in India has been mined since 1774, and India is the second largest producer and consumer of coal after China, mining in FY 2022. [1]

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  1. 112 relations: Andhra Pradesh, António Guterres, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Baliari, Barakar, Bengal, Bengalis, Bermo, Bhagatdih, Bharat Coking Coal, Bhowrah, Bhuli, India, Bihar, Black market, Bloomberg L.P., Bokaro Steel City, Carbon Tracker, Carr, Tagore and Company, Cement, Chas, Bokaro, Chemical industry in India, Chhattisgarh, Chhotaputki, Chirkunda, Coal, Coal in China, Coal India, Coal mining, Coal phase-out, Coal preparation plant, Coal-fired power station, Coking, Compound annual growth rate, COVID-19 pandemic, Damodar River, Dhanbad, Dhaunsar, Dumka, East India Company, Eastern Coalfields, Electricity sector in India, Environmental law, First Modi ministry, Fossil fuel subsidies, Geology of India, Gobindpur, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Gujarati people, Health and environmental impact of the coal industry, ... Expand index (62 more) »

  2. Coal mining in India

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.

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António Guterres

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India.

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Assam

Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Baliari

Baliari (also called Balihari) is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Barakar

Barakar is a neighbourhood in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Bermo

For the town in North Wales, see Y BermoFor the commune of Niger see Bermo, Niger Bermo is a census town in the Bermo CD block in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district of the state of Jharkhand, India.

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Bhagatdih

Bhagatdih (also spelled Bhuggatdih) is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Bharat Coking Coal

Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited which is inturn under the ownership of Ministry of Coal, Government of India, Its headquarters is located at Dhanbad and Kolkata, India.

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Bhowrah

Bhowrah (also spelt as Bhowra) is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Bhuli, India

Bhuli is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand, India.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Bokaro Steel City

Bokaro, officially known as Bokaro Steel City, is a large and planned city in Jharkhand, India.

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Carbon Tracker

Carbon Tracker is a London-based not-for-profit think tank researching the impact of climate change on financial markets.

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Carr, Tagore and Company

Carr, Tagore and Company (also written as Carr, Tagore & Co.) was the first equal partnership between European and Indian businessmen and the initiator of the managing agency system in India.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.

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Chas, Bokaro

Chas is a Municipal Corporation in the Chas subdivision of the Bokaro district in the state of Jharkhand, India.

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Chemical industry in India

The chemical industry of India is a major industry in the Indian economy and as of 2022, contributes 7% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is a landlocked state in Central India.

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Chhotaputki

Chhotaputki is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Chirkunda

Chirkunda is a City and a notified area in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the state of Jharkhand, India.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal in India and coal are coal mining.

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Coal in China

China is the largest producer and consumer of coal and coal power in the world.

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Coal India

Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Coal phase-out

Coal phase-out is an environmental policy intended to stop burning coal in coal-fired power plants and elsewhere, and is part of fossil fuel phase-out.

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Coal preparation plant

A coal "washer" in Eastern Kentucky A modern coal breaker in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania combines washing, crushing, grading, sorting, stockpiling, and shipping in one facility built into a stockpile of anthracite coal below a mountain top strip mine A coal preparation plant (CPP; also known as a coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP), coal handling plant, prep plant, tipple or wash plant) is a facility that washes coal of soil and rock, crushes it into graded sized chunks (sorting), stockpiles grades preparing it for transport to market, and more often than not, also loads coal into rail cars, barges, or ships. Coal in India and coal preparation plant are coal mining.

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Coal-fired power station

A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity.

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Coking

Coking is the heating of coal in the absence of oxygen to a temperature above to drive off the volatile components of the raw coal, leaving a hard, strong, porous material of high carbon content called coke.

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Compound annual growth rate

Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a business, economics and investing term representing the mean annualized growth rate for compounding values over a given time period.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Damodar River

Damodar River (Pron: /ˈdʌmoˌdaː/) is a river flowing across the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal.

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Dhanbad

Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur.

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Dhaunsar

Dhansar is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Dumka

Dumka, the headquarters of the Dumka district and Santhal Pargana region, is a city in the state of Jharkhand, India.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Eastern Coalfields

Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) is a coal producer based in India.

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Electricity sector in India

India is the third largest producer of electricity in the world.

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Environmental law

Environmental laws are laws that protect the environment.

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First Modi ministry

The First Narendra Modi ministry is the Council of Ministers headed by Narendra Modi that was formed after the 2014 general election which was held in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May in 2014.

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Fossil fuel subsidies

Fossil fuel subsidies are energy subsidies on fossil fuels.

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Geology of India

The geology of India is diverse.

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Gobindpur, Jharkhand

Gobindpur is a census town in Govindpur CD block in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Gujarati people

The Gujarati people, or Gujaratis, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who reside in or can trace their ancestry or heritage to a region of the Indian subcontinent primarily centered in the present-day western Indian state of Gujarat.

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Health and environmental impact of the coal industry

The health and environmental impact of the coal industry includes issues such as land use, waste management, water and air pollution, caused by the coal mining, processing and the use of its products.

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Health effects of coal ash

Coal ash, also known as coal combustion residuals (CCRs), is the mineral residue that remains from burning coal.

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Heat of combustion

The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.

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Hindustan

Hindūstān is a name for India, broadly referring to the entirety or northern half of the Indian subcontinent.

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IISCO Steel Plant

IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited is an integrated steel plant located at Burnpur, a neighbourhood in Asansol city, in the Asansol subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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India's Coal Story

India's Coal Story: From Damodar to Zambezi is a non-fiction book written by journalist Subhomoy Bhattacharjee and published by SAGE Publishing in 2017. Coal in India and India's Coal Story are coal mining in India.

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Indian coal allocation scam

The coal allocation scam, dubbed in the media as '''Coalgate''', is a major political scandal concerning the Indian government's allocation of the nation's coal deposits to public sector enterprise (PSEs) and private companies.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Iron and steel industry in India

The Iron and Steel industry in India is among the most important industries within the country.

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Jamadoba

Jamadoba is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision in Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Jammu and Kashmir (state)

Jammu and Kashmir was a region formerly administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since the mid-20th century.

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Jeenagora

Jeenagora is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district of Jharkhand.

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Jharia

Jharia is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad city in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Jharia coalfield

Jharia coalfield is a large coal field located in the east of India in Jharia, Dhanbad,Jharkhand.

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Jharia Khas

Jharia Khas is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.

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Kailudih

Kailudih is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Katras

Katras (also known as Katrasgarh) is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad City in Dhanbad Sadar Subdivision in the Jharkhand state, India.

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Kenduadih

Kenduadih is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Kerala

Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.

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Khora Ramji Chawda

Khora Ramji Chawda (1860–1924), better known as Seth Khora Ramji, was a reputed railway contractor, coal mines owner, banker and philanthropist of the early 20th century in India, who worked from Jharia near Dhanbad.

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Kutch district

Kutch district, officially spelled Kachchh, is a district of Gujarat state in western India, with its headquarters (capital) at Bhuj.

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Kutchi people

The Kutchi people (Kutchi and Gujarati: કચ્છી;; कच्छी) traditionally hail from the Kutch district of the western Indian state of Gujarat and the Sindh region of Pakistan.

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Levelized cost of electricity

The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a measure of the average net present cost of electricity generation for a generator over its lifetime.

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List of countries by coal production

This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2021. Coal in India and list of countries by coal production are coal mining.

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Loyabad

Loyabad is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.

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Mafia

"Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the organized crime groups from Italy.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.

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Marwari people

The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indian ethnic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.

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Metallurgical coal

Metallurgical coal or coking coal is a grade of coal that can be used to produce good-quality coke.

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Mining scams in India

Mining scams in India (colloquially Indian mining scam) refers to a series of alleged widespread scams in various ore-rich states of India, which has generated controversy.

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Ministry of Coal

The Ministry of Coal is an Indian government ministry headquartered in New Delhi.

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Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is a ministry of Government of India concerned with coverage and quality aspects of statistics released.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

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Mugma

Mugma is a village in Nirsa CD Block in Dhanbad district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in the north-eastern region of India.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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Planning Commission (India)

The Planning Commission was an institution in the Government of India which formulated India's Five-Year Plans, among other functions.

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Proven reserves

Proven reserves (also called measured reserves, 1P, and reserves) is a measure of fossil fuel energy reserves, such as oil and gas reserves and coal reserves.

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Puducherry (union territory)

Puducherry, also known as Pondicherry (Pondichéry), is a union territory of India, consisting of four small geographically unconnected districts.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Raniganj Coalfield

Raniganj Coalfield is primarily located in the Asansol and Durgapur subdivisions of Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal.

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Repealing and Amending (Second) Act, 2017

The Repealing and Amending (Second) Act, 2017 is an Act of the Parliament of India that repealed 131 Acts, and also repealed nine Ordinances promulgated by the Governor-General of India before independence.

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Sahnidih

Sahnidih (also called Sinidih) is a census town in Baghmara CD block in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Sijhua

Sijhua is a Village in the Chas CD block in the Chandankiyari subdivision of the Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Sijua

Sijua is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.

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Singareni Collieries Company

The Singareni Collieries Company Limited or SCCL is a government-owned-coal mining corporation in India. It is under the ownership of Department of Energy, Government of Telangana. The Union Government's administration of the company is through the 49% ownership held by Ministry of Coal. SCCL is currently operating 40 mines where 18 opencast and 22 underground mines in 6 districts of Telangana (erstwhile 4 districts of AP) with a manpower around 39,856 as of November 2023.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Suetonius Grant Heatly

Suetonius Grant Heatly (sometimes spelled as Heatley; 1751–1793) was a judge employed by the British East India Company and, with John Sumner, established what is considered to be the first coal mine in India.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Tata Steel

Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company, based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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Telangana

Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.

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Think tank

A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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Tisra

Tisra is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster

The 1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster occurred on 28 May 1965, in a coal mine near Dhanbad, India.

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See also

Coal mining in India

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_India

Also known as Coal industry in India, Coal mining in India, History of coal in India.

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