Eastern Coalfields

Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL)
Company typeState-owned enterprise
Subsidiary
IndustryMining
Founded1975
Headquarters
Sanctoria, Asansol, West Bengal
,
India
Area served
India
Key people
Shri Samiran Dutta
(Chairman & MD)
ProductsCoal
OwnerCoal India Limited
Number of employees
72,973 [1]
Websiteeasterncoal.nic.in

Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) is a coal producer based in India. The company was founded in 1975 after nationalisation of coal mines in India. It operates coal mines in Jharkhand and West Bengal states of India. It inherited all the private sector coal mines of the Raniganj Coalfield. It is one of the fully owned subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. The company has its headquarters at Sanctoria, in West Bengal.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Eastern Coalfields Limited - CORPORATE INFORMATION".
  2. ^ Eastern Coalfields Limited
  3. ^ Eight subsidiaries of Coal India Limited International directory of company histories, Volume 44 by Thomas Derdak, Tina Grant.
  4. ^ [1] Eastern Coalfields Limited (Ministry of Energy, Department of Coal)