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The National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO), one of India’s leading producers of alumina and aluminium, has been granted the mining lease of the Utkal E coal block.
The lease has been granted by the Department of Steel & Mines, Government of Odisha, through a notification issued on 12 April. As per the notification, the mining lease of the Utkal E coal block is over an area of 523.73 Ha in villages Nandichhod, Gopinathpur Jungle, Kundajhari Jungle, Kosala & Korada under Chendipada Tahasil of Angul District. The initial capacity of the Utkal E coal block is 2 million tpy with a total mineable reserve of approximately 70 million t.