Coal blocks in Odisha

Odisha account for around 13.4% of the country’s total production and 25% of total coal reserves of India. Talcher and Ranapur Himgir are the two important coal fields. Talcher accounts for nearly 3/4th of the total coal reserve of the state.

Terms of spatial spread of prognostical coal bearing area, the coalfields of the state of Orissa have about 7.6% area (2723 Sq.Km). This goes to illustrate the high ratio of coal to non coal strata in the two hitherto known coal bearing basin viz.lb River coalfield and Talcher coalfield. As a sequel to which threse coalfields have an added advantage of being accorded most favoured coalfields status by the nature as far as quarriable potentiality is concerned.
Historically Talcher coalfield was discovered by Lt. kittoe in 1839 and lb River coalfield by V.Ball in 1871 yet the real impetus for resource assesment by systematic exploration efforts was accorded only in the post nationalisation era of the coal industry since 1973, the importance of Orissa coalfields further enhanced due to their vicinity to east coast.

 

Coal Block	State	Private/ Govt	Industry
Talabira-I	Odisha	P	others
Utkal-C	Odisha	P	Power
Utkal-B2	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Utkal B 1	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Jamkhani	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Utkal-D	Odisha	G	Commerci al
Utkal-E	Odisha	G	Power
Talabira II	Odisha	G	Power
Utkal-A	Odisha	G	Power
Bijahan	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Patrapara	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Dulanga	Odisha	G	Power
Mahanadi Machhakata	Odisha	G	Power
Radhikapur (East)	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Radhikapur (West)	Odisha	P	Sponge Iron
Nuagaon Telisahi	Odisha	G	Commercial
Meenakshi	Odisha	P	Power
Meenakshi B	Odisha	P	Power
Dip side of Meenakshi	Odisha	P	Power
Chendipada, Chendi-II	Odisha	G	Power
Baitarni West	Odisha	G	Power
Mandakini B	Odisha	G	Power
Manoharpur	Odisha	G	Power
Dipside Manoharpur	Odisha	G	Power
Naini	Odisha	G	Power
Mandakini	Odisha	P	Power
Rampia & Dip Side of Rampia	Odisha	P	Power
Ramchandi Promotion Block	Odisha	P	CTL
North of Arkhapal Srirampur	Odisha	P	CTL
Bankhui	Odisha	P	Power