Coal India Ltd supplies 407.02 MT coal to power sector during Feb 4, 2018-19

As on 04.02.2019, the average rake loading of CIL to Power Sector including loading from Washery& Good-Shed is 252.5 Rakes/day, which is an impressive growth of 13% over the same period of last year.

Coal India Ltd. has supplied 407.02 MT coal to the power sector during the current year up to 04.02.2019 thereby achieving a growth of 7.3% over the same period of last year.

As on 04.02.2019, the average rake loading of CIL to Power Sector including loading from Washery& Good-Shed is 252.5 Rakes/day, which is an impressive growth of 13% over the same period of last year.

This supply is likely to further increase due to the opening of the Dhanbad-Chandrapuraline which shall facilitate the faster evacuation of coal from the BCCL subsidiary of CIL.

The increased coal supply has resulted in building up of comfortable coal stock at the end of the Thermal Power Plants. As on 04.02.2019, power plants are having 20.870 MT coal stock which is sufficient for 13 days. This is an increase of 42% over the stock of the same period of last year. The coal stock at TPPs on 04.02.2018 was 14.68 MT.

(With Inputs from PIB)