Coal India reports 7 pct increase in coal output during April-December

Coal India Ltd (CIL) said Tuesday its output rose 7.4 per cent to 412.42 million tonnes (MT) in the April-December period of the ongoing fiscal as compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. The state-run company had recorded production of 383.92 MT during the corresponding period of 2017-18. For December, its output was almost flat at 54.13 MT.

The company had recorded 54.63 MT output in December 2017. The coal offtake by the public sector undertaking registered a growth of 5.5 per cent to 444.59 MT during the April-December period. CIL accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic coal production in the country.