NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government has raised India’s coal production by over 144 million tonne (mt) in the five years it has been in power, overshooting by 5% the 138mt added to the country’s output in the 10 years of UPA rule between 2004 and 2014.
Production by Coal IndiaNSE -0.13 % (CILNSE 0.29 %), the state-run miner accounting for nearly 90% of domestic supplies, stood at a little over 462mt when the Modi government took over in May 2014. Five years since then, production by the country’s largest coal miner stands at 607mt in 2018-19, coal ministry data shows.
