Coal production from captive mines in the first 10 months of the ongoing fiscal have increased by 21.8% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 46.3 million tonne (MT) from the corresponding period in FY19. However, more than 53% of the output came from coal blocks which were not cancelled by the Supreme Court in its September 2014 order.
The apex court had then cancelled 204 from 218 captive coal block licences, saying that these had been allocated in an illegal and arbitrary manner. After the Supreme Court ruling, 36 coal mines has been auctioned so far.
