Coal India registers highest nine-month growth since pre-Covid level

Coal India (CIL) has touched 479 million tonnes (MT) of coal production during the nine months of the current fiscal year. This marks a 16 per cent growth over the same period last year and is the highest for this period in the last three years.

Compared to the April-December period of 2019, the company’s coal production grew by 23 per cent.

In a public statement, CIL said that the production of 66.4 MT for December 2022 was the highest this fiscal so far. It was 6.2 MT ahead compared to the same month last year with a growth of