CIL offtake takes hit due to pandemic

State-run Coal India NSE 0.19 %’s (CIL) coal offtake rose to 54.1 Million Tonnes (MTs) in April, when the pandemic spread afflicted over 5,400 company’s employees and their wards across subsidiaries including contractual workers.

Nearly 78% of the coal was lifted by power sector. The power sector lifted 42.4 MTs and the rest 11.7 MTs was taken by the non-power sector.