Hyderabad, July 4 -- State-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) Chairman and Managing Director N Balram on Friday claimed that Singareni uses environmentally safe mining technologies such as surface miners, in-pits crushers, draglines, continuous miners, and longwall mining.
As per regulations, the mining company is also extensively involved in afforestation, having already planted 77.6 million saplings, said Balram who presented a detailed PowerPoint presentation on behalf of SCCL explaining the company's practices at the international conference on " Sustainable and Responsible Mining through Best Mine Closure Practices," organized by the World Mining Congress held here.
Singareni is conducting its coal mining operations in...