CIL’s positive growth

Kolkata: Coal India (CIL) for the first time in the ongoing fiscal on October 20 neutralised the negative growth in coal production for the year. The coal production of 265.6 million tonne (MT) as of date was at level with the last year’s output on the same date with the company posting a marginal 0.04 MT increase in volume terms.
Mahanadi Coalfields with coal production of 71.1 MT on October 20, which is a 9.6 MT increase on year-on-year comparison and Northern Coalfields at 60 MT logging a jump of 3.1 MT during the referred period has played catalytic role in wiping out CIL’s negative production trend.
“From now on, ramping up coal production would not be a problem especially with coal seams exposed, and ready for production, due to a phenomenal growth of 71% in over burden removal in September’20 and 22.3% during first half of the fiscal,” said a senior executive of the coal behemoth.