Coal India touches a new high in per day output making despatches an issue now

At a time when COVID-19 has hit most industrial operations and companies are forced to cut down on production, public sector miner Coal India (CIL)’s three lakh-odd workers are escalating productivity, which down the line has put despatches on pressure.

The company has peaked a high off producing 3.17 million tonne on March 20 this year, the highest ever single-day production, overtaking 3.14 MT that it produced on March 25 last year. Coal stocks to the country’s power stations rose to its highest at 39.48 MT, which gives an average inventory of 23 days to the power producing units.