At least 22 mines owned by Coal India (CIL),the world's biggest coal miner, face closure over environmental concerns in Jharkhand, potentially suffering an output loss of up to 40,000 tonnes a day, officials said on Wednesday. The state pollution control authority has accused CIL of running the mines without proper forest clearance permission. We have issued an order to them to shut down, said Sanjay Kumar, member of Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board. But a senior official at Bharat Coking Coal (BCCL),a unit of CIL which operates these mines, said they had not yet received the closure order. We have not stopped production yet, D C Jha, BCCL director, said. We will have to close down once we get the order.
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