East Bokaro Coalfield

East Bokaro Coalfield

Location
Bokaro Coalfield Location in Jharkhand
State	Jharkhand
Country	India
Coordinates
Owner
Company	Central Coalfields Limited
Website	http://ccl.gov.in/
Year of acquisition	1975

East Bokaro Coalfield is located in Hazaribagh and Bokaro districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Overview

In 1917, L.S.S.O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: “Near the western boundary of Jharia field is that of Bokaro, covering 220 square miles (570 km²), with an estimated content of 1,500 million tons; close by… is the Ramgarh field (40 square miles), in which, however, coal is believed to be of inferior quality. A still larger field in the same district is that called Karanpura, which extends over 544 square miles (1,410 km²) and has an estimated capacity of 9,000 million tons.”

The Coalfield

The Bokaro coalfield lies between 23⁰ 45^’ and 23⁰ 50^’ North latitude and 85⁰ 30^’ and 86⁰ 03^’ East longitude. It spreads 65 km from east to west and 10 to 16 km from north to south. Bokaro West and Bokaro East are two subdivisions of the field separated almost in the middle by Lugu Hill (height 960.9 m).

Bokaro River passes through the West Bokaro and East Bokaro coalfields.

East Bokaro Coalfield covers an area of 208 square kilometres (80 sq mi) and has total coal reserves of 4,473.66 million tonnes.

Transport

In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh-Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway.