Fuel supply by Coal India to power sector drops 9% to 291 MT in April-November
NEW DELHI: The supply of coal by state-owned Coal IndiaNSE -1.13 % to the power sector registered a decline of 8.9 per cent to 291.4 million tonnes in April-November this year.
The world’s largest coal miner had supplied 320 million tonnes (MT) of coal in April-November period of the previous fiscal, according to latest government data.
The fuel supply by Coal India (CILNSE 6.00 %) during the month of November also registered a decline of 9.9 per cent to 38.8 MT, against 43.1 MT in the corresponding month of previous fiscal, the data showed.
Coal dispatch by state-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) also dropped marginally by 1.7 per cent to 34.4 MT in the April-November period of the ongoing fiscal, against 35 MT in the year-ago period.
