CIL’s priority is to ensure power plants are well-stocked with coal: CMD

Stating that ensuring adequate fuel supply to thermal power plants is its “priority”, public sector miner Coal India has asked its employees to step up efforts and breach the production and offtake target of 700 million tonnes for FY23.

In a letter to the employees of Coal India Limited (CIL), the company’s chairman-cum-managing director Pramod Agrawal said that the company’s priority is to make sure that the electricity generating units are well stocked with domestic fuel amid the ongoing power shortage.

“Coal India’s priority is to ensure that the nation’s power plants are well stocked with domestic coal and the country gets power at just price.