Coal India’s off-take up by 15 MTs in April ’21 amid 2nd wave

Amid the rising second wave of Covid-19, Coal India’s (CIL) coal offtake climbed to 54.1 Million Tonnes (MTs) of coal in April’21. Of this, the power sector lifted 42.4 MTs or 78.4%. The rest 11.7 MTs was made up by the non-power sector.

Offtake could have been even higher, but the pandemic spread afflicted over 5400 company’s employees and their wards across subsidiaries including contractual workers slowing down the operations. Most of them are involved in the frontline output and offtake operations. Loading from private washeries, goods sheds and transport through road mode as well took a hit.

“Despite the setback, coal supplies logged a 3.3% growth compared to a covid free April of FY’20, while the growth was even higher at 6.1% against April FY’19