Coal India output up

Calcutta: Coal India has registered a 16.7 per cent growth in production in April along with rising offtake and increased rake loading.

The coal mining public sector undertaking produced 44.84 million tonnes (mt) of coal in April 2018, an increase of 6.4mt compared with 38.44mt produced in April 2017.

Coal offtake at 50.97mt for April, registered a growth of 12.9 per cent. Coal India's supply to power plants was at 40.30mt during the month against 35.20mt in the corresponding month a year ago

Rake loading per day during April 2018 to the whole coal-consuming sector grew 10.4 per cent as the miner loaded 245.7 rakes on an average against 222.6 rakes per day during April 2017.

"The constant synergistic efforts between Coal India and Railways to improve the transport logistics led to a situation where the average rake loading per day increased significantly," a senior Coal India official said.

The PSU has brought down its pithead stock by 6.13mt in April having started the fiscal with a stock of 55.67mt.

Coal India Ltd