Bengaluru, 29 April 

Bengaluru-headquartered BEML Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking, on Tuesday announced the launch of the country’s largest indigenously designed and developed electric rope shovel—BRS21.

Describing it as a technological marvel, BEML said the BRS21 rope shovel is entirely designed, engineered, and manufactured in India.

According to BEML, the high-capacity electric rope shovel is purpose-built for large-scale overburden removal in opencast mining operations.

"This electric giant marks a historic shift in large-scale surface mining by offering an eco-friendly, zero-emission solution for overburden removal in opencast mines. Weighing an impressive 720 tons and equipped with a 21-cubic-meter bottom dump bucket, the BRS21 stands as one of the most capable and advanced machines in its class," BEML said in a statement.

The monumental mining equipment was formally handed over by Shantanu Roy, Chairman and Managing Director of BEML, to B Sairam, Chairman and Managing Director of Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), at Nigahi Mines, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh.