State-owned CIL’s coal supply to electricity generating plants rose by 11 per cent to 50.8 MT in October amid higher power demand in the festive month.
The fuel supply by Coal India Ltd (CIL) to the power sector was 45.8 MT in October last fiscal.
The higher supply of five million tonnes (MT) was despite rain lashed across the mines of CIL’s subsidiaries based in the eastern part of the country — Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL), Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) and partly Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) — during the first week of October, the maharatna firm said in a statement.
