India's September coal imports slump 27 pct to 12.6 mln tonnes

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's coal imports fell 27 percent to 12.6 million tonnes in September from a year earlier as local output jumped, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said on Monday.

"With unprecedented increase in coal production by Coal India Ltd , import of coal comes down for third successive month," Swarup tweeted.

India is opening a mine a month as it races to double coal output by 2020.

(Reporting by Krishna N. Das; Editing by Anand Basu)