Thursday 20 April 2017

Coal supply by CIL to power sector increased 1.3% in 2016-17

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The supply of coal by state-owned CIL to power sector increased by 1.3 percent to 420.2 million tons (MT) in 2016-17. The increase in supply comes at a time when the demand for coal by the power sector has picked up on the back of economy doing well. Coal India Ltd (CIL) which accounts for over 80 percent of the domestic coal production had dispatched 414.7 MT of fuel in FY 2015-16, according to latest government data. 

However, in March, the dispatch of coal by CIL declined by around seven percent to 34.6 MT from 37.1 MT in March 2016, the data said. The overall dispatch of coal by the PSU increased by 1.6 percent to 543.2 MT in 2016-17 from over 534.5 MT in the preceding fiscal. Coal Secretary Sushil Kumar had earlier said, the demand for coal by the power sector has picked up since December as the economy was doing well.

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