Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) production stood at 20.92 million tonnes (MT) of lignite in current financial year, till January, as compared to 19.7 MT during the first 10 months of previous year, marking a growth of 6.19%.
Besides on monthly basis, the company's lignite production stood at 2.4 million tonnes in January 2013 as compared to 2.22 million tonnes during January 2012, marking a growth of 8.10% on a year on year basis.
Neyveli Lignite Corporation is engaged in the business of lignite mining and power generation. At present, the company has four opencast lignite mines with a capacity of about 30.60 million tonnes per annum, while it can produce about 2,740 MW of power from four power plants.
