Coal India (CIL), the world’s largest coal miner, on Tuesday reported around 7% year-on-year decline in its production to 195.54 million tonne during April to August as against 210.15 million tonne during the same period last year.
Coal offtake also declined 13.4% y-o-y to 208.36 million tonne (MT) in the first five months of the current fiscal as compared with 204.65 MT in the corresponding period last fiscal, the state-run coal behemoth said in a stock exchange filing.