CIL sends record 364.4 mt coal in first 7 months of FY22

Kolkata: Coal India (CIL) has claimed that it has despatched a total of 364.4 million tonne of coal during the first seven months of the ongoing fiscal, the highest ever for this period so far, posting 19% growth over the year-ago period.
“The increase in volume terms is a whopping 58.6 mt compared to 305.8 mt of the same period last fiscal. Overall coal supplies for October’21 reached 56.7 mt with nearly 12% jump against October last year when the despatch was 50.7 mt,” CIL added.
According to the coal behemoth, with concentrated efforts to consolidate dwindling coal stocks at power utilities of the country, CIL scaled up its supplies to an all-time month’s high of 48.2 mt in October’21 clocking a year-on-year 23% growth.