Five oxygen plants in Singareni hospitals in 6 weeks
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SCCL management procuring ventilators, other medical equipment worth ₹3.15 crore
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SCCL management procuring ventilators, other medical equipment worth ₹3.15 crore
The Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has decided to set up five oxygen plants at its hospitals with a cost of ₹2 crore and also to procure ventilators and other necessary medical equipment with another ₹3.15 crore to ensure complete COVID healthcare services.
Although medical oxygen supply was being ensured now to all COVID wards and quarantine centres, the oxygen plants are being planned keeping in mind the possibility of higher need of oxygen in the event of a surge in cases. The plants would be established at the SCCL headquarters hospital at Kothagudem and the area hospitals at Bhupalapally, Ramakrishnapur and Bellampally.
SCCL to inoculate workers in a month
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The management of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has decided to administer COVID-19 vaccine to all its employees in a month’s time, besides scaling up tests and stepping up medical facilities.
Special isolation wards would be set up across the mining areas with the provision of at least 1,200 beds in quarantine centres. Instruction have been issued to procure necessary medicines including injections, as also oxygen. Appointment of necessary doctors and other support staff on contract basis has also been approved.
Chairman and Managing Director of the company N. Sridhar held a video conference with the Directors, Chief Medical Officer and other officials concerned on Thursday. He instructed the officials scale up Covid tests across the mining areas and vaccinate at least 2,000 employees every day so that the vaccination drive was completed in about a month’s time. According to SCCL officials,
Second SCCL solar plant synchronised with grid
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The second solar power plant with 28 megawatt capacity in Mandamarri area of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL) was synchronised with the grid on Saturday.
This took the total solar power capacity of the coal company linked with the grid to 152 MW.
Directors of the company S. Chandrasekhar (Operations), D. Satyanarayana Rao (E&M) and president of the recognised workers’ union B. Venkat Rao and others switched on a panel on Saturday to formally synchronise the plant with the grid.
Saving of ₹120 crore
By completing the entire 300 MW capacity of solar plants by October-end, the company would save about ₹120 crore annually on energy bills, they said.
Green nod to SCCL mine put off
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Various non-compliances based on the site visit conducted in September 2019 reported
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Various non-compliances based on the site visit conducted in September 2019 reported
Non-compliances with closure plan for the existing mine, safety issues related to proposed coal washery and want of information on several other aspects have made an expert committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests defer the environmental clearance proposal for the expansion of Jalagam Vengal Rao opencast mine of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd.t
At its meeting held during the fourth week of March, the appraisal panel of experts noted that the proposed project was expansion of amalgamation of JVR-I and II of SCCL in 1,953 hectares at Kommepalli in Khammam district as the coal reserve of JVR-I is likely to get exhausted by the end of the year. The the mine void of JVR-I would be used for dumping the overburden material.