EASTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED

ECL’s total command area is 1620 Sq.Kms. It is situated in two States – West Bengal and Jharkhand. Area of Raniganj Coalfield is 1530 Sq. Kms spreading over Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura and Purulia Districts in West Bengal and Dhanbad District in Jharkhand. Saherjuri Coalfield in Deoghar District of Jharkhand is having an area of 10 Sq.Kms is being worked as SP Mines Area under ECL. Hura Coalfields in Godda District of Jharkhand is also under ECL having an area of 80 Sq.Kms. ECL’s largest opencast mine Rajmahal is being operated here. Heart of Raniganj Coalfield is however, in Burdwan District bounded by Ajoy River in North and Damodar River in South. Kasta Coalfields is located on the North of Ajoy while Mejia and Parbelia are on South of Damodar River. In Dhanbad District, Mugma field lies on the west of Barakar River.Formation of coal seems has occurred mainly in two sequence at ECL – Raniganj measures & Barakar measures. Raniganj measures covers the entire coalfield of Raniganj – Pandaveswar, Kajora, Jhanjra Bankola, Kenda, Sonepur, Kunustoria, Satgram, Sripur, Sodepur & Partly at Salanpur Areas. Barakar measures covers two areas Salanpur & Mugma Areas, SP Mines & Rajmahal Areas are mainly related to Barakar measure & Talchair series).

At present ECL has 110 no. of operating mines out of which 83 are underground mines, 21 are opencast mines and 6 mixed mines. Of this 93 mines are in West Bengal and 17 in Jharkhand. 11 Areas are in West Bengal and Balance 3 Areas are in Jharkhand States as Under The existing manpower in Eastern Coalfields Limited as on 1.3.2009 is 90758, out of which female employees are 8009 (8.82%).