CIL coal offtake up 9.3% in Aug
Kolkata: Shrugging off the Covid-constricted growth and monsoon downpour, Coal India (CIL) came back strongly in August logging a 9.3% growth in coal off-take and 7.1% growth in coal output compared to August a year ago. For the first time in the ongoing fiscal, CIL has clocked growth in both the facets.
Over burden removal (OBR) registered a growth of 37% this August, while composite OC production, which is the sum total of the OBR uncovered and coal produced through opencast mines, witnessed 30% growth against same month a year ago.
“The growth slowdown is contained and going forward, in the ensuing months of the fiscal, we endeavour to maintain our production and off-take tempo,” said a senior official of the company.
CIL as whole supplied 44.3 million tonne (MT) of coal to different consuming sectors during the referred month against 40.5 MT in the year-ago period with a growth of 9.3%. Increased supplies in volume terms during the month was at 3.7 MT. Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL) clocked a robust 40.4% growth followed by 10.4% growth by Bharat Coking Coal and South Eastern Coalfields (SECL) 7.6%.
