India's state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) will get 4 million mt of coking coal per year from its Tasra coal block, a company official said.
The development of the Tasra coal block in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand has been awarded to Lanco Infra, a mine developer and operator (MDO) and the entire production will be provided to SAIL, the official said. The works on the project will start following the official signing of the MDO contract.
The MDO will also build a beneficiation plant and a 300 MW power plant near the block estimated to have a reserve of 100 million mt.
India's largest steel producer was import dependant to extent of 75 percent for its 14-15 million mt per year requirement of coking coal.