Coal India's May production declines 1.1 pct to 46.59 MT; offtake drops 1.4 pct

State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) produced 46.59 million tonnes of coal in May, registering a decline of 1.1 per cent from the year-ago period, as per a regulatory filing. CIL had produced 47.12 million tonnes of coal in the same month last year, it said in a BSE filing Sunday.

Coal offtake during May 2019 fell about 1.4 per cent to 52.09 million tonnes as compared to 52.81 million tonnes in the year-ago period, it added. The production and offtake figures are provisional, the company said.