Coal India

Coal India's October supplies rose 19 per cent to a record 70.3 MT, with power-sector deliveries hitting an all-time high of 57.1 MT amid rising demand and lower coal imports

Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Sunday said its coal production rose 19.3 per cent year-on-year to 67.2 million tonnes (MT) in October. The state-owned miner had produced 56.4 MT in the same month last year, according to provisional data filed with the stock exchanges. Offtake in October stood at 70.3 MT, up 18.7 per cent from 59.2 MT a year ago. For the April-October period of 2026-27, CIL's production inched up 0.7 per cent to 388.2 MT from 385.5 MT in the year-ago period. Offtake during the seven months grew 9.2 per cent to 454.6 MT from 416.2 MT. Among the subsidiaries, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) recorded the highest production in October at 20.8 MT, up 25.3 per cent. South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) produced 14.3 MT, a rise of 17.4 per cent. Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) posted the sharpest growth, with output rising 64.7 per cent to 5.9 MT. Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) produced 4.6 MT, up 27.9 per cent, while Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) output rose 26.1 per cent to 7.3 MT. Bh

The state-owned miner achieved 109 per cent of its first-half capex target, with mine infrastructure, land acquisition, machinery and diversification driving spending

Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Ltd (BCGCL), the joint venture of Coal India Ltd (CIL) and BHEL, has started ground construction activities for its Rs 25,000 crore coal gasification project in Odisha, with most of the tenders awarded, its Managing Director Peeyush Kumar said on Thursday. The development assumes significance in the wake of the country's push to build 100 million tonne of coal gasification capacity by 2030 under the National Coal Gasification Mission, aimed at converting coal into chemicals and bringing down the import dependence on products such as LNG, urea, ammonia and methanol. "We are going ahead with the joint venture of BHEL and Coal India, which is BCGCL....I am happy to share that we have started ground construction activities... Most of the tenders have been awarded and construction has started," Kumar said during the 17th Edition of Gasification India 2026 organised by Mission Energy Foundation. BCGCL--a joint venture in which CIL holds the majority

Power-sector coal despatches rose 10.6 per cent year-on-year in September, while daily supplies remained robust in early October as CIL drew down pithead inventories

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