Hazaribagh Area
Hazaribagh Area is one of the operational areas of the Central Coalfields Limited located mainly in the Hazaribagh and Ramgarh districts in the state of Jharkhand, India. The projects of the Hazaribagh Area are: Parej East Open Cast, Kedla underground, Kedla opencast, Tapin opencast, Jharkhand opencast, Kedla Washery and Regional R/Workshop. The area office is at Charhi, PO Charhi 825336. Mining activity Mines and projects The Parej East project could not be started because of non-availability of environmental clearance. Kedla geological coal block lies in West Bokaro Coalfield, in the Mandu (community development block) in the Ramgarh district. It lies between Hazaribagh Plateau and the Damodar River. The general elevation is . The area is gently undulating and Bokaro River flows along the southern boundary. The Kedla, Jharkhand and Rauta collieries were taken over from the Raja of Ramgarh in 1973. The total mineable reserves in D, C and B sectors have been estimated at 41.72 million tonnes of coal. Kedla open cast project has an approved production capacity of 1.0 million tonnes per year. With extraction of coal from the Kedla OCP in the intervening years, as of 2012, the balance mineable reserve was 23.60 million tonnes and an