From the archive record
M. P Narayana, Chairman of Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Chennai talks about lignite mines, he says, "At neighborly we have two large mines opencast mines producing around eleven million tons of lignite incidentally Neyvelli is the largest opencast mine in Asia, the lignite dust produced is used in power stations for generating power and also for carbonizing briquettes in the briquettes carbonization plant what are the silent features of this mine and the power station? We are consistently producing lignite an optimum level of efficiency and many cases beyond the capacity utilization almost in some case sometimes around 114 percent. Similarly, in the power sector, the first thermal power station having worked clocked more than 150 thousand hours and completed 25 years. He is again generatin