Coal India achieves record production of 622 million tonnes in FY22
State-owned Coal India Limited (CIL) on Friday reported a record coal production in FY22 at 622.6 million tonnes, registering an annual growth of 4.4 per cent.
In 2020-21, coal production stood at 595.2 million tonnes (MT).
Coal supplies to power generation companies during FY22 also touched a record of 540.4 MT, up 21.4 per cent as compared to 445 MT in FY21.
“CIL ended FY22 scripting a historic high in coal production, offtake and coal despatch to power plants… amid rising coal demand from the country’s (power) generation companies,” the company said in a regulatory filing.
According to the filing, CIL began FY22 with 99.13 MT of stock at its pitheads and could liquidate 38.4 MT of coal in March 2022-end.
