Coal India allotted 11 new mines in Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar: Piyush Goyal

The ministry of coal would allot 11 coal mines to state-owned Coal India Limited, which will add 225 million tonnes to the annual production capacity of the company by 2022.

CIL has set a target to produce 1 billion tonne coal by March 2020. In the last fiscal, Coal India’s production stood at 554 million tonnes. For this fiscal, the target is to touch 600 million tonnes of coal production.

“The government has decided to allot 11 coal mines to Coal India," Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said, “Of the 11 mines, five are deallocated blocks and six are fresh mines,”