Hyderabad, May 4 -- The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has given its nod for the production of 2 Open Cast mines and 3 Ground mines with a capacity to produce 210 lakh tonne coal per annum.

This project has been designed to produce 314.98 million tonne coal, which would be supplied to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ramagundam and other nearby coal-based industries in the Ramagundam region as per the agreements made.

GDK- 10 Incline, which has been shut down, and Vakilpally ground mine, which is going to be shut down, will be converted to open-cast mines, and the remaining coal in those mines will be completely extracted. In addition to this, coal will also be extracted from the Ramagundam openca...