Coal India Ltd (CIL) said Tuesday its output rose 7.4 per cent to 412.42 million tonne (MT) in the April-December period of the ongoing fiscal as compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
The state-run company had recorded a production of 383.92 MT during the corresponding period of 2017-18.
For December, its output was almost flat at 54.13 MT. The company had recorded 54.63 MT output in December 2017.
The coal offtake by the public sector undertaking registered a growth of 5.5 per cent to 444.59 MT during the April-December period.
CIL accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic coal production in the country.