Northern Coalfields hit FY19 coal production target

Coal India Ltd subsidiary Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) has achieved the 100-million-tonne production milestone, which also happens to be the target for the current fiscal 2018-19, a company official said on Wednesday. NCL is also expected to meet its dispatch targets for the fiscal. Coal India Chairman A K Jha is presently on a two-day visit to NCL.

"Northern Coalfields achieved its assigned target of 100 million tonnes of production on Tuesday, five days ahead of fiscal completion," a company spokesperson said. Most of its coal projects have either met annual targets or produced more coal than the projection, officials said.