District Representative , Dinajpur 10 Agust 2025 :
Coal mining has resumed at the Barapukuria coal mine in Dinajpur after a one-and-a-half-month shutdown.
This production activity officially began on Saturday (August 9) morning from the new phase of the mine, number 1406. Earlier, production was stopped on June 23 due to the exhaustion of coal reserves in the old phase 1305. The mine authorities said that production has been resumed after the installation and maintenance work of equipment in the new phase was completed. A target of extracting about 3.94 lakh tonnes of coal has been set from here.
According to the mining authority, a total of 501,000 tons of coal have been extracted from Phase 1305 from January 23 to June this year. The new phase plans to extract 1,500 to 2,000 tons of coal daily in the first week and 3,000 to 3,500 tons in the subsequent weeks.
The extracted coal will be supplied to the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant, which the mine authorities hope will help continue uninterrupted power generation.
General Manager (Current Duty) of the Mine Operations Department, Khan Md. Zafar Sadiq said, 'Production has been started after the construction of open pits in the new phase number 1406 and the salvage and maintenance of equipment from the old phase.
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