Coal India has set a production and offtake target of 700 million tonnes in 2022-23 after achieving a record production in 2021-22.
The public sector miner achieved a record production of 622.6 million tonnes for the financial year ended March 31, 2022, eclipsing the previous high of 607 million tonnes in 2018-19. In 2020-21, Coal India had produced 596.2 million tonnes.
Coal production during March 2022 was pegged at 80.3 million tonnes, down marginally by 1.1 per cent compared with the same period the previous year.
