Coal India August output at 32.43 MT; misses target

State-owned CIL today said it produced 32.43 million tonnes (MT) of coal in August, missing its target for the month.
The company's target for August was 40.89 MT, Coal India (CIL) said in a BSE filing.
It produced 194.81 MT of coal in the first five months on the ongoing fiscal.
However, the target for April-August period of 2016-17 was 213.61 million tonnes.
The government has set a production target of 598 million tonnes for CIL for the ongoing fiscal.
The company is eying to double its production to 1 billion tonnes by 2020.