Coal India Limited (CIL) is expecting this year to miss its production target owing to several issues faced during the year.

Coal India, a Government owned miner reported that they may miss FY14 production target of 482 MT by around 5 MT.

Coal India Chairman & Managing Director, S Narsing Rao has told to media that, “The country is facing acute fuel shortages and in the current fiscal there may be shortfall in the production of around 5 MnT.”

He further added, “Cyclone Phailin as well as law & order problems at its subsidiaries. Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) and Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) would be among the reasons for the likely shortfall.”

CIL subsidiary MCL already suffered production loss of more than one million tonnes from Talcher Coalfields owing to law & order issues.

Earlier Coal Minister, Sriprakash Jaiswal had asked state-owned miner to ensure that the output target for FY14 should be met.

Talcher Coalfields’ mining activities has stopped at in Odisha, with the Coal transportation, in Nov ’13, because of the violence by a group of laborers protesting the arrest of some of their colleagues at Jagannath area in Angul district. Violence has affected mining activities in around 6 Coal blocks of Coal India subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields.

CIL also mentioned earlier that it has suffered with production loss because of Phailin in October. Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand were the area got affected majorly during Cyclone.

CIL accounts over 80 per cent of the domestic production, contributed 452.5 MT of Coal in 2012-13 as against the target of 464 MT.