CIL Coal Production has Increased by 105 MT (Approx) During the Last Four Years

 The CIL coal production has increased by 105 MT (approx) during the last four years as compared to an increase of 31 MT (approx) during the period of 2010-11 to 2013-14 (4 years). Similarly offtake of coal from CIL has increased by about 109.12 MT during the last four years as compared to an increase of about 55.04 MT during the period of 2010-11 to 2013-14 (4 years).The opening of coal mines is a continuous activity which is undertaken regularly to meet the increasing demand of coal in the economy.

Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries have planned upcoming Greenfield projects as under:

Also, under Coal Mines Special Provision Act, 2015, 84 coal mines have been allocated. Further, directions have been issued to the Nominated Authority for allocation of 27 more coal mines (06 coal mines for the end use ‘Production of Iron and Steel, 13 coal mines for the end-use ‘Iron & Steel, Cement and Captive Power plants {excluding steel (coking)}’ 02 coal mines for State Government Company or Corporation for sale of coal, 06 coal mines for the purpose of own consumption for power).

There is a gap between demand and domestic supply of coal which cannot be bridged completely as there is insufficient availability of coking coal and power plant designed on imported coal will continue to import coal for their production. However, for the Financial Year 2018-19, Ministry of Power has projected annual domestic coal requirement 615 MT (525 MT from Coal India Limited, 53 MT from Singareni Collieries Company Limited and 37 MT from Captive mines). This requirement is being met by supply of coal from domestic sources. Due to these efforts of enhanced domestic coal supply to power plants, the coal import by power plants has reduced from 80.58 MT in 2015-16 to 56.41 MT in 2017-18.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Coal, Finance & Corporate Affairs, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha