India’s total Coal production is recorded at 314 MnT during Apr’14- Oct’14, according to a provisional data released by Union Ministry of Coal.
Coal India contributes about 80% of total production and rest 20% by SCCl and captive miners. The government has not scaled down CIL’s target for FY15 i.e. fixed at 507 MnT, which is 9% more than the actual production during the previous year, stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, Coaland New&Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
Actual Output of Coal against Target in FY14 & FY15
|
Coal Production |
FY14 |
FY15 |
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|
Company |
Target |
Actual |
Target |
Achieve (till Oct’14) |
|
CIL |
482 |
462.41 |
507 |
250.96 |
|
SCCL |
54.3 |
50.47 |
55 |
25.59 |
|
Captive |
50 |
39.91 |
50 |
30.68 |
|
Others |
18.25 |
12.97 |
18.25 |
6.74 |
|
Total |
604.55 |
565.76 |
630.25 |
313.97 |
|
Others include other public sectors, TSL, Meghalaya |
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The Minister further stated that currently total domestic production from all sources is not sufficient to cater domestic demand from power as well as other sectors. Therefore, the government has been taking initiatives to increase coal production as far as possible through facilitating environment & forest clearances.
The Central is pursuing development work with the state government for help in expediting land acquisition and coordinated effort with Railways for movement of coal. Steps have been taken by Coal India and its eight subsidiaries to augment coal production, which includes capacity addition from new projects and use of mass production technologies.
– Sourced
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