Coal India Ltd (CIL) has reinstated normal working conditions across its various subsidiaries, after witnessing a hindrance in production due to strike activities.
The workers had gone out on strike to protest against the government’s decision on commercial mining, which lasted from first shift of 2 Jul’20 to third shift of 4 Jul’20, without any untoward incidence. After which, normalcy was resorted from the first shift of 5 Jul’20.
Recovering from the set-back, CIL has recorded coal production of 12.98 Lakh tonnes as on 8 Jul’20 which was 91% of the target.
Notably, NCL and MCL had attained their respective production set for the day. However, production at NECL remained temporarily suspended due to delay in clearance from MoEF&CC.
| Subsidiary | Target | Actual Production |
| MCL | 3.5 | 3.58 |
| SECL | 3.8 | 3.24 |
| NCL | 2.82 | 2.91 |
| CCL | 1.4 | 0.96 |
| ECL | 1.13 | 0.87 |
| WCL | 0.77 | 0.82 |
| BCCL | 0.8 | 0.6 |
| Total | 14.23 | 12.98 |
Recorded as on 8 Jul’20
Quantity in Lakh tonne
Loss in coal production during strike:
Refuting the claims of worker unions that nil production was recorded during the strike, CIL has reported production of 17.19 Lakh tonnes during the three days period.
Still, the average production was only 44% of the average volume taken into account production for the past 10 days before the strike had begun. Besides, the overall dispatch during strike remained lower than the corresponding production.
Snap-shot of CIL’s performance during strike
| Coal Production | Coal Dispatch | |
| 2 Jul’20 | 4.81 | 5.78 |
| 3 Jul’20 | 5.55 | 4.52 |
| 4 Jul’20 | 6.83 | 5.73 |
| Total | 17.19 | 16.03 |
Quantity in Lakh tonne
During FY21, CIL has been slashing its coal production to liquidate the surplus stock which has risen to 74.67 mn t as on 8 Jul’20 as against 35.47 mn t noted in the year-ago period.
Incidentally, the company has produced a total of 129.01 mn t coal till date, which decreased by 12% y-o-y from the corresponding period in previous fiscal.
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