Coal India Ltd (CIL), which registered negative growth in production of the dry fuel for past few months, has posted over 7 per cent growth in December with 58 million tonne output, sources said on Wednesday.
The coal behemoth had produced 54.13 million tonne in corresponding month of 2018.
In the last month, the production was about 8 million tonne higher from 50.2 million tonne produced in November.
According to provisional data, the miner has produced 388.39 million tonne of coal during April-December period of the current fiscal, down by 5.83 per cent from 412.45 million tonne in the first nine months of the last financial year, CIL sources told PTI.
Coal India aimed at producing 660 million tonne in 2019-20 and missed the target of 457.23 million tonne till December.
