CIL to meet 1-billion-tonne output goal, offer 10,000 new jobs: Minister
State-owned Coal India will produce 750 million tonnes of coal in the next financial year and would offer around 10,000 new jobs to boost employment, Union minister Pralhad Joshi said on Friday..
Coal India (CIL) will further produce 1 billion tonnes of coal by FY2024, the coal ministry quoted Joshi as saying.
“The CIL is also likely to offer around ten thousand new jobs to boost employment,” the coal minister said.
Joshi also directed CIL to take necessary steps to achieve this goal in light of growing energy requirements of the nation and assured the PSU of all possible help from the Ministry of Coal in this regard.
