State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Friday said the supply of coal to the consuming sectors rose 9.2 per cent to 154.6 million tonnes (MT) in the third quarter of the current financial year.
The company had supplied 141.6 MT of dry fuel in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year, the state-owned company said in a statement.
“During the quarter ended December 2020, CIL at 154.6 million tonne (MT) supplied 13 MT more coal to the consuming sectors, posting 9.2 per cent growth compared with 141.6 MT of the third quarter of last fiscal,” the statement said.
The state-owned firm’s total output stood at 156.8 MT in October-December 2020, a 6.3 per cent jump as compared with 147.5 MT in the year-ago period.
